M-type star · red

HR 6251

HR 6251 is a red in the constellation Ara 709 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,660 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 178× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 709 years ago.

709 lybrightness mag 5.91M0III

Also catalogued as HD 151967 · HIP 82672

3,660 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
178× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
709 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
178×
the Sun's light output
-0.78
absolute magnitude
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HR 6251M-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHD 15320159 ly
StarHR 620765 ly
StarBeta Ara86 ly
StarAlpha Arastar
StarZeta Arastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ara
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.