G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 6140

HR 6140 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ophiuchus 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,212 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 5.66G5III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 148604 · HIP 80793

5,212 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
39.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
298 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
39.55×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 6140G-type
Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.