K-type star · orange

HR 6368

HR 6368 is an orange in the constellation Ara 326 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,581 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 326 years ago.

326 lybrightness mag 5.87K0III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 154903 · HIP 84248

4,581 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
39.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
326 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
39.08×
the Sun's light output
0.87
absolute magnitude
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HR 6368K-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHR 618217 ly
StarTheta TrA29 ly
StarZeta Aps29 ly
StarBeta Arastar
StarAlpha Arastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ara
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.