M-type star · red
HR 601
HR 601 is a red in the constellation Aries 672 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,671 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 672 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 12479 · HIP 9533
3,671 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
672 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
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.