HD 6
star in the constellation Pisces
HD 6 is a star in the equatorial constellation of Pisces, and is located a couple of degrees southeast of the intersection between the ecliptic and the celestial equator. It is a yellow-hued star that is just barely visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.3. The star is located at a distance of 471 light-years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of 14.9 km/s. It has an absolute magnitude of 0.62.
An evolved red giant with a stellar classification K0 III, the star has moved off the main sequence by cooling and expanding. At the age of 1.6 billion years, is now a red clump giant on the horizontal branch that is engaged in core helium fusion. It has nearly double the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 12.4 times the Sun's radius.
“HD 6” enters the record as star in the constellation Pisces. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what star, constellation and Pisces can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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