M-type star · red

HR 6001

479 lybrightness mag 5.35M2III

Also catalogued as HD 144690 · HIP 79050

3,590 K

temperature

5.35

apparent magnitude

136× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

479 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

136×

the Sun's light output

-0.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6001M-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

13 Sco →15 ly apart
HR 6054 →16 ly apart
HR 6042 →22 ly apart
Iklil →32 ly apart
1 Sco →37 ly apart
Dschubba →37 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.