M-type star · red

HR 6128

HR 6128 is a red in the constellation Ophiuchus 577 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,489 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 219× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 577 years ago.

577 lybrightness mag 5.24M2 comp

Also catalogued as HD 148349 · HIP 80620

3,489 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
219× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2 comp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
577 years
at light speed from Earth
0.60×
as hot as the Sun
219×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.