M-type star · red

6 Sgr

2,630 lybrightness mag 6.27K2III

Also catalogued as HR 6715 · HD 164358 · HIP 88258

3,437 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
1,759× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,630 years
at light speed from Earth
0.60×
as hot as the Sun
1,759×
the Sun's light output
-3.26
absolute magnitude
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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.