Márohu
Sign in to saveWASP-6, also officially named Márohu, is a type-G yellow dwarf star located about away in the Aquarius constellation. Dim at magnitude 12, it is visible through a moderate sized amateur telescope. The star is about 80% of the size and mass of the Sun and it is a little cooler. Starspots in the WASP-6 system helped to refine the measurements of the mass and the radius of the planet WASP-6b.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- G8V
- Distance
- 651 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.00004179645460022918
- Coordinates
- RA 348.1572° · Dec -22.6740°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 198.232
- Radius
- 0.87
- Mass
- 0.888
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- catalog code
- TYC 6972-75-1
- effective temperature
- 5450
- parallax
- 5.0073
- apparent magnitude
- 11.968609
- radial velocity
- 12.53
- spectral class
- G8
- metallicity
- -0.19
- surface gravity
- 27500
- name
- Márohu
- luminosity
- 0.4917212
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -23.264
- declination component of proper motion
- -37.143
- right ascension
- 348.15723678442
- declination
- -22.67396494584
- age estimated by a dating method
- 11
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WASP-6, also officially named Márohu, is a type-G yellow dwarf star located about away in the Aquarius constellation. Dim at magnitude 12, it is visible through a moderate sized amateur telescope. The star is about 80% of the size and mass of the Sun and it is a little cooler. Starspots in the WASP-6 system helped to refine the measurements of the mass and the radius of the planet WASP-6b.
==Nomenclature== The designation WASP-6 indicates that this was the 6th star found to have a planet by the Wide Angle Search for Planets.