B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6356

1,240 lybrightness mag 6.37B8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 154555 · HIP 83984

10,781 K

temperature

6.37

apparent magnitude

356× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,240 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

356×

the Sun's light output

-1.53

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6356B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 153389 →140 ly apart
HR 6438 →170 ly apart
HR 6114 →170 ly apart
Gam Ara →170 ly apart
HR 6304 →180 ly apart
Iot Aps →210 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.