M-type star · red

HR 6452

HR 6452 is a red in the constellation Hercules 480 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,576 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 480 years ago.

480 lybrightness mag 5.01M2III

Also catalogued as HD 157049 · HIP 84833

3,576 K
temperature
5.01
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
480 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
absolute magnitude
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HR 6452M-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 643225 ly
StarHR 648231 ly
StarHR 662754 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.