K-type star · orange

HR 6430

1,431 lybrightness mag 6.25K2

Also catalogued as HD 156593 · HIP 84599

3,729 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

530× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,431 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

530×

the Sun's light output

-1.96

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6430K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 155061 →220 ly apart
HR 6737 →350 ly apart
HR 6820 →360 ly apart
HR 6720 →380 ly apart
50 Her →410 ly apart
HR 6854 →420 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.