G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

6 Tri

6 Tri is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Triangulum 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,373 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.

291 lybrightness mag 4.94F5V comp SB

Also catalogued as HR 642 · HD 13480 · HIP 10280

5,373 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
73.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V comp SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
73.11×
the Sun's light output
0.19
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
6 TriG-type
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Triangulum

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.