K-type star · orange

HR 6126

HR 6126 is an orange in the constellation Draco 293 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,483 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 293 years ago.

293 lybrightness mag 5.26K2III

Also catalogued as HD 148293 · HIP 80161

4,483 K
temperature
5.26
apparent magnitude
55.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
293 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
55.41×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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HR 6126K-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
StarHR 634518 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.