K-type star · orange

HR 6160

HR 6160 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 578 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,041 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 578 years ago.

578 lybrightness mag 6.43K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 149174 · HIP 81198

4,041 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
73.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
578 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
73.38×
the Sun's light output
0.19
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.