K-type star · orange
6 CMi
6 CMi is an orange in the constellation Canis Minor 572 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,165 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 406× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 572 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2864 · HD 59294 · HIP 36425
4,165 K
temperature
4.55
apparent magnitude
406× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
572 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
406×
the Sun's light output
-1.67
absolute magnitude
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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.