A-type star · white star

HR 6481

408 lybrightness mag 5.75A3V

Also catalogued as HD 157740 · HIP 85185

9,287 K

temperature

5.75

apparent magnitude

68.23× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

408 years

at light speed from Earth

1.61×

as hot as the Sun

68.23×

the Sun's light output

0.27

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6481A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6604 →38 ly apart
HR 6337 →41 ly apart
HR 6532 →49 ly apart
HR 6432 →50 ly apart
Rasalgethi →52 ly apart
54 Her →53 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.