K-type star · orange

HR 6583

HR 6583 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 690 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,715 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 239× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 690 years ago.

690 lybrightness mag 5.53K5III

Also catalogued as HD 160668 · HIP 86698

3,715 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
239× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
690 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
239×
the Sun's light output
-1.10
absolute magnitude
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HR 6583K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.