K-type star · orange

HR 5973

531 lybrightness mag 6.22K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 143900 · HIP 78699

3,973 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

75.09× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2/K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

531 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

75.09×

the Sun's light output

0.16

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5973K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5988 →12 ly apart
3 Sco →25 ly apart
HR 5942 →27 ly apart
HR 5910 →34 ly apart
2 Sco →36 ly apart
Dschubba →45 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.