M-type star · red

HR 6578

HR 6578 is a red in the constellation Ophiuchus 513 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,638 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 513 years ago.

513 lybrightness mag 6.08K2.5Ib

Also catalogued as HD 160471 · HIP 86476

3,638 K
temperature
6.08
apparent magnitude
79.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2.5Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
513 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
79.65×
the Sun's light output
0.10
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.