B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6502

583 lybrightness mag 5.52B5V

Also catalogued as HD 158148 · HIP 85385

11,903 K

temperature

5.52

apparent magnitude

173× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

583 years

at light speed from Earth

2.06×

as hot as the Sun

173×

the Sun's light output

-0.74

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6502B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6419 →48 ly apart
HR 6495 →49 ly apart
HR 6352 →53 ly apart
HR 6543 →60 ly apart
HR 6589 →66 ly apart
HR 6642 →67 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 5.5To 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.