B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6506

288 lybrightness mag 5.94A0V

Also catalogued as HD 158261 · HIP 85382

10,342 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

28.65× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

288 years

at light speed from Earth

1.79×

as hot as the Sun

28.65×

the Sun's light output

1.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6506B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6388 →35 ly apart
HR 6444 →37 ly apart
78 Her →37 ly apart
HR 6443 →43 ly apart
59 Her →44 ly apart
HR 6259 →44 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.