K-type star · orange

HR 6122

HR 6122 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 360 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,506 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 360 years ago.

360 lybrightness mag 5.79K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 148247 · HIP 80672

4,506 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
51.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
360 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
51.24×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 6122K-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.