K-type star · orange

HR 6124

HR 6124 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 466 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,946 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 466 years ago.

466 lybrightness mag 6.06G8III

Also catalogued as HD 148287 · HIP 80558

4,946 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
66.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
466 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
66.99×
the Sun's light output
0.28
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.