K-type star · orange

HR 6076

HR 6076 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 470 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,590 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 470 years ago.

470 lybrightness mag 6.29K0III

Also catalogued as HD 146834 · HIP 79945

4,590 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
55.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
470 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
55.11×
the Sun's light output
0.50
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.