K-type star · orange

HR 6300

348 lybrightness mag 5.98G5IV

Also catalogued as HD 153221 · HIP 83216

5,042 K

temperature

5.98

apparent magnitude

40.33× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

348 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

40.33×

the Sun's light output

0.84

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6300K-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6312 →17 ly apart
Eps1Ara →31 ly apart
HR 6331 →33 ly apart
HR 6483 →36 ly apart
HR 6420 →37 ly apart
HR 6275 →38 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.