M-type star · red

HR 6257

757 lybrightness mag 5.95M3II/III

Also catalogued as HD 152161 · HIP 82650

3,590 K

temperature

5.95

apparent magnitude

196× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M3II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

757 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

196×

the Sun's light output

-0.88

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6257M-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6460 →76 ly apart
HR 6501 →130 ly apart
HR 6572 →130 ly apart
HR 6174 →130 ly apart
HR 6207 →140 ly apart
HR 6282 →140 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 6.0To 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.