K-type star · orange

HR 6651

620 lybrightness mag 6.05K1III

Also catalogued as HD 162496 · HIP 87516

4,230 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

120× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

620 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

120×

the Sun's light output

-0.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6651K-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6708 →51 ly apart
HR 6628 →69 ly apart
Shaula →71 ly apart
Lesath →72 ly apart
HR 6583 →80 ly apart
HR 6470 →83 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 6.0To 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.