K-type star · orange

HR 6135

HR 6135 is an orange in the constellation Apus 809 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,241 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 338× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 809 years ago.

809 lybrightness mag 5.50K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 148488 · HIP 81141

4,241 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
338× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
809 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
338×
the Sun's light output
-1.47
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.