K-type star · orange

HR 6612

1,042 lybrightness mag 6.38K4III

Also catalogued as HD 161369 · HIP 86713

3,762 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

249× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,042 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

249×

the Sun's light output

-1.14

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6612K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6702 →88 ly apart
88 Her →120 ly apart
HR 6531 →140 ly apart
HR 6901 →190 ly apart
HR 6183 →220 ly apart
HR 7017 →240 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.