K-type star · orange

HR 6198

HR 6198 is an orange in the constellation Draco 511 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,753 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 511 years ago.

511 lybrightness mag 6.17K5

Also catalogued as HD 150429 · HIP 81358

3,753 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
72.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
511 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
72.85×
the Sun's light output
0.19
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.