K-type star · orange

HR 6557

2,886 lybrightness mag 6.26G2Ib

Also catalogued as HD 159633 · HIP 86246

4,224 K

temperature

6.26

apparent magnitude

2,138× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,886 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

2,138×

the Sun's light output

-3.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6557K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

Iot2Sco →370 ly apart
HR 6260 →530 ly apart
HR 6261 →530 ly apart
Zet1Sco →550 ly apart
HR 6197 →640 ly apart
HR 6283 →650 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scorpius

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.