M-type star · red

HR 6682

HR 6682 is a red in the constellation Scorpius 452 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,626 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 452 years ago.

452 lybrightness mag 4.88M0III

Also catalogued as HD 163376 · HIP 87936

3,626 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
452 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.