K-type star · orange

HR 6546

HR 6546 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 166 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,570 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 166 years ago.

166 lybrightness mag 4.26G8/K0III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 159433 · HIP 86170

4,570 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
44.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
166 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
44.50×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.