Star profile
6 Boötis
What is 6 Boötis
6 Boötis is an orange-red K4III giant, an aged star long past the main sequence whose radius has swollen to roughly 41 times that of the Sun. Its effective temperature hovers near 4,420 K, cooler than our own star, which gives it that warm cast within the Herdsman. It belongs to a binary system and remains a naked-eye object from the north at 401 light-years.
Where it is and when to see it
6 Boötis lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 6 Boötis
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.92
- Distance
- 401.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 207.428° · Dec 21.264°
- Catalogue
- HIP 67480 · HD 120539
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Other stars in Boötes
Boötes has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArcturusAlpha Boötis-0.05
- IzarEpsilon Boötis2.35
- MuphridEta Boötis2.68
- 20 Boötis4.84
- HIP 703274.86
- 31 Boötis4.86
- 45 Boötis4.93
- Nu 2 Boötis4.98