K-type star · orange

HR 6046

HR 6046 is an orange in the constellation Corona Borealis 675 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,031 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 211× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 675 years ago.

675 lybrightness mag 5.62K3III SB

Also catalogued as HD 145849 · HIP 79358

4,031 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
211× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
675 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
211×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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HR 6046K-type
Sky regionCorona Borealisthis direction
StarHR 598328 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.