K-type star · orange

HR 6068

HR 6068 is an orange in the constellation Corona Borealis 393 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,062 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 393 years ago.

393 lybrightness mag 6.14K2

Also catalogued as HD 146537 · HIP 79686

4,062 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
44.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
393 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
44.26×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.