M-type star · red

HR 6587

1,503 lybrightness mag 6.44M1III

Also catalogued as HD 160748 · HIP 86716

3,376 K

temperature

6.44

apparent magnitude

491× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,503 years

at light speed from Earth

0.58×

as hot as the Sun

491×

the Sun's light output

-1.88

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6587M-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6593 →140 ly apart
HR 6523 →220 ly apart
HR 6856 →260 ly apart
HR 6960 →320 ly apart
HR 6389 →320 ly apart
HR 6621 →330 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 6.4To 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.