G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 6006

393 lybrightness mag 6.18K1III

Also catalogued as HD 144927 · HIP 79173

5,311 K

temperature

6.18

apparent magnitude

42.74× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

393 years

at light speed from Earth

0.92×

as hot as the Sun

42.74×

the Sun's light output

0.77

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6006G-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6007 →16 ly apart
HR 5860 →36 ly apart
The Lup →36 ly apart
HR 5974 →37 ly apart
HR 6097 →40 ly apart
HR 5935 →41 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

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.