K-type star · orange

HR 6221

HR 6221 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 288 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,804 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 288 years ago.

288 lybrightness mag 5.48K0III

Also catalogued as HD 151078 · HIP 82135

4,804 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
43.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
288 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
43.61×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.