K-type star · orange dwarf
HR 6014
HR 6014 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Serpens 92.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,772 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 92 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 145148 · HIP 79137
4,772 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
2.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
92 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
2.96×
the Sun's light output
3.67
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.