K-type star · orange

HR 6101

HR 6101 is an orange in the constellation Draco 592 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,046 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 592 years ago.

592 lybrightness mag 6.39K0

Also catalogued as HD 147662 · HIP 79867

4,046 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
79.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
592 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
79.73×
the Sun's light output
0.10
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.