K-type star · orange

HR 6044

HR 6044 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 569 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,693 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 115× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 569 years ago.

569 lybrightness mag 5.91K0III

Also catalogued as HD 145838 · HIP 79596

4,693 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
115× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
569 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
115×
the Sun's light output
-0.30
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.