K-type star · orange

HR 6011

HR 6011 is an orange in the constellation Serpens 396 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,838 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 396 years ago.

396 lybrightness mag 5.93K5III

Also catalogued as HD 145085 · HIP 79120

3,838 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

54.60× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

396 years

at light speed from Earth

0.66×

as hot as the Sun

54.60×

the Sun's light output

0.51

absolute magnitude

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HR 6011K-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

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Bright stars in Serpens

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

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.