M-type star · red

HR 6257

HR 6257 is a red in the constellation Scorpius 757 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,590 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 196× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 757 years ago.

757 lybrightness mag 5.95M3II/III

Also catalogued as HD 152161 · HIP 82650

3,590 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
196× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
757 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
196×
the Sun's light output
-0.88
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.