K-type star · orange

Tau⁶ Ser

Tau⁶ Ser is an orange in the constellation Serpens 606 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,975 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 120× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 606 years ago.

606 lybrightness mag 6.00G8III

Also catalogued as HR 5840 · HD 140027 · HIP 76810

4,975 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
120× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
606 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
120×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.