K-type star · orange
60 Ser
60 Ser is an orange in the constellation Serpens 230 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,838 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 230 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6935 · HD 170474 · HIP 90642
4,838 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
30.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
230 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
30.45×
the Sun's light output
1.14
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.