K-type star · orange

Rasalgethi

360 lybrightness mag 2.78M5IIvar

Also catalogued as 64Alp1Her · HR 6406 · HD 156014 · HIP 84345

4,381 K

temperature

2.78

apparent magnitude

818× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M5IIvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

360 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

818×

the Sun's light output

-2.43

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

RasalgethiK-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6337 →40 ly apart
HR 6359 →41 ly apart
HR 6342 →43 ly apart
53 Oph →47 ly apart
HR 6577 →49 ly apart
HR 6246 →50 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →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
20Gam Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.8To 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.