K-type star · orange

HR 6044

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6044K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6143 →41 ly apart
HR 6211 →73 ly apart
HR 5918 →77 ly apart
Fang →79 ly apart
HR 6210 →86 ly apart
HR 5910 →86 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?

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.