K-type star · orange

HR 6438

1,094 lybrightness mag 5.86G8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 156768 · HIP 85049

4,570 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

444× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8Ib/II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,094 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

444×

the Sun's light output

-1.77

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6438K-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

Gam Ara →37 ly apart
HR 6487 →120 ly apart
HR 6215 →140 ly apart
HR 6622 →150 ly apart
HR 6530 →160 ly apart
HR 6356 →170 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 5.9To 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.