F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6496

142 lybrightness mag 6.20F7V

Also catalogued as HD 157968 · HIP 85397

6,313 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

5.46× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

142 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

5.46×

the Sun's light output

3.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6496F-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6600 →11 ly apart
HR 6375 →13 ly apart
HR 6449 →15 ly apart
HR 6284 →22 ly apart
64Nu Oph →23 ly apart
HR 6534 →24 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.