K-type star · orange

HR 6043

HR 6043 is an orange in the constellation Corona Borealis 504 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,255 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 504 years ago.

504 lybrightness mag 6.30K2III

Also catalogued as HD 145802 · HIP 79350

4,255 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
62.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
504 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
62.81×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Corona Borealis

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.