K-type star · orange

HR 6078

HR 6078 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 1,062 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,832 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 378× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,062 years ago.

1,062 lybrightness mag 5.97K3IIICNpvar

Also catalogued as HD 146850 · HIP 79938

3,832 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
378× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3IIICNpvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,062 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
378×
the Sun's light output
-1.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 6078K-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarOmicron Sco240 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.