K-type star · orange dwarf

6 Vir

6 Vir is an orange dwarf in the constellation Virgo 171 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,899 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 171 years ago.

171 lybrightness mag 5.58K0III:

Also catalogued as HR 4559 · HD 103484 · HIP 58110

4,899 K

temperature

5.58

apparent magnitude

14.11× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

171 years

at light speed from Earth

0.85×

as hot as the Sun

14.11×

the Sun's light output

1.98

absolute magnitude

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6 VirK-type

Sky regionVirgothis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.