K-type star · orange

HR 6599

427 lybrightness mag 6.36K2

Also catalogued as HD 160950 · HIP 86501

4,311 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

42.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

427 years

at light speed from Earth

0.75×

as hot as the Sun

42.66×

the Sun's light output

0.78

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6599K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6718 →28 ly apart
85Iot Her →34 ly apart
HR 6791 →39 ly apart
HR 6376 →53 ly apart
HR 6641 →55 ly apart
HR 6853 →58 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.