K-type star · orange

HR 6501

799 lybrightness mag 5.98K0III

Also catalogued as HD 158105 · HIP 85543

4,489 K

temperature

5.98

apparent magnitude

212× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

799 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

212×

the Sun's light output

-0.97

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6501K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 160371 →73 ly apart
HR 6648 →74 ly apart
HR 6658 →79 ly apart
HR 6647 →85 ly apart
HR 6663 →95 ly apart
HR 6282 →100 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.