B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6304

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6304B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6525 →110 ly apart
HR 6114 →120 ly apart
HR 6440 →130 ly apart
HR 6384 →150 ly apart
HR 6356 →180 ly apart
HR 5898 →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

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.