K-type star · orange

HR 5973

HR 5973 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 531 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,973 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 531 years ago.

531 lybrightness mag 6.22K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 143900 · HIP 78699

3,973 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
75.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
531 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
75.09×
the Sun's light output
0.16
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scorpius

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.