K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 6426

22.3 lybrightness mag 5.91K4V

Also catalogued as HD 156384 · HIP 84709 · Gliese Gl 667A

4,554 K

temperature

5.91

apparent magnitude

0.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

22 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

0.18×

the Sun's light output

6.74

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6426K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

Guniibuu B →4.1 ly apart
HD 156026 →4.2 ly apart
Guniibuu →4.2 ly apart
HR 6416 →8.2 ly apart
HR 5568 →12 ly apart
HR 7703 →13 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 5.9To 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.