A-type star · white star

HR 6162

226 lybrightness mag 5.61A4Vn

Also catalogued as HD 149303 · HIP 80953

8,793 K

temperature

5.61

apparent magnitude

23.86× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

226 years

at light speed from Earth

1.52×

as hot as the Sun

23.86×

the Sun's light output

1.41

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6162A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

11Phi Her →27 ly apart
25 Her →38 ly apart
Ogma →45 ly apart
HR 6469 →46 ly apart
52 Her →47 ly apart
HR 5887 →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.