M-type star · red

HR 6001

HR 6001 is a red in the constellation Scorpius 479 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,590 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 479 years ago.

479 lybrightness mag 5.35M2III

Also catalogued as HD 144690 · HIP 79050

3,590 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
136× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
479 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
136×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
absolute magnitude
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HR 6001M-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.