K-type star · orange

HR 6199

HR 6199 is an orange in the constellation Draco 271 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,614 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 271 years ago.

271 lybrightness mag 5.28K1III

Also catalogued as HD 150449 · HIP 81437

4,614 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
46.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
271 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
46.43×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 6199K-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
StarHR 622618 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.