K-type star · orange dwarf

HD 6037

HD 6037 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Cetus 303 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,340 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 303 years ago.

303 lybrightness mag 6.47K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HIP 4801

4,340 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
19.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
303 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
19.39×
the Sun's light output
1.63
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.