K-type star · orange

HR 6190

HR 6190 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 449 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,565 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 449 years ago.

449 lybrightness mag 6.25K0III

Also catalogued as HD 150259 · HIP 81632

4,565 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
52.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
449 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
52.24×
the Sun's light output
0.56
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.