F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6496

HR 6496 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Serpens 142 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,313 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 142 years ago.

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

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HR 6496F-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

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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.