K-type star · orange

HR 6501

HR 6501 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 799 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,489 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 212× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 799 years ago.

799 lybrightness mag 5.98K0III

Also catalogued as HD 158105 · HIP 85543

4,489 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
212× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
799 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
212×
the Sun's light output
-0.97
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.