B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6304

HR 6304 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 1,406 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,993 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 507× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,406 years ago.

1,406 lybrightness mag 6.26B2IVne

Also catalogued as HD 153261 · HIP 83323

11,993 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
507× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IVne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,406 years
at light speed from Earth
2.08×
as hot as the Sun
507×
the Sun's light output
-1.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 6304B-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHR 6525110 ly
StarHR 6114120 ly
StarHR 6440130 ly
StarBeta Arastar
StarAlpha Arastar
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Bright stars in Ara
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.