M-type star · red

HR 6429

HR 6429 is a red in the constellation Apus 884 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,626 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 298× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 884 years ago.

884 lybrightness mag 5.83M3III

Also catalogued as HD 156513 · HIP 85760

3,626 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
298× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
884 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
298×
the Sun's light output
-1.33
absolute magnitude
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HR 6429M-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarHR 664666 ly
StarDelta¹ Aps130 ly
StarHD 129899130 ly
StarParadysstar
StarGamma Apsstar
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Bright stars in Apus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.