M-type star · red

HR 6154

HR 6154 is a red in the constellation Hercules 841 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,642 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 287× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 841 years ago.

841 lybrightness mag 5.76K5III

Also catalogued as HD 149009 · HIP 80898

3,642 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
287× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
841 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
287×
the Sun's light output
-1.30
absolute magnitude
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HR 6154M-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.