K-type star · orange
6 Ser
6 Ser is an orange in the constellation Serpens 239 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,326 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 239 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5710 · HD 136514 · HIP 75119
4,326 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
33.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
239 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
33.98×
the Sun's light output
1.02
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.