M-type star · red

HR 6463

1,000 lybrightness mag 6.35M2III

Also catalogued as HD 157257 · HIP 84938

3,638 K

temperature

6.35

apparent magnitude

236× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,000 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

236×

the Sun's light output

-1.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6463M-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

37 Oph →150 ly apart
HR 6358 →170 ly apart
96 Her →190 ly apart
Ramus →220 ly apart
HR 6720 →220 ly apart
49Sig Oph →230 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.