K-type star · orange

HR 6408

2,490 lybrightness mag 5.93K2IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 156091 · HIP 84731

3,968 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

2,156× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2IIICN...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,490 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

2,156×

the Sun's light output

-3.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6408K-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6219 →280 ly apart
HD 143548 →460 ly apart
HD 164896 →510 ly apart
HD 163071 →520 ly apart
HR 6188 →550 ly apart
HR 5873 →610 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?

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.