K-type star · orange

60 Ari

60 Ari is an orange in the constellation Aries 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,230 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 6.14K3III:

Also catalogued as HR 1000 · HD 20663 · HIP 15557

4,230 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
25.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
298 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
25.47×
the Sun's light output
1.33
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aries

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.