K-type star · orange

HR 6517

366 lybrightness mag 6.43K2III

Also catalogued as HD 158619 · HIP 85786

4,326 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

29.32× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

366 years

at light speed from Earth

0.75×

as hot as the Sun

29.32×

the Sun's light output

1.18

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6517K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6456 →26 ly apart
HR 6522 →28 ly apart
HR 6403 →35 ly apart
HR 6503 →36 ly apart
HR 6539 →37 ly apart
HR 6382 →42 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.