Barnard's Star has the largest proper motion of all stars, moving at 10.3″ yr. Large proper motion usually strongly indicates an object is close to the Sun. This is so for Barnard's Star, about 6 light-years away. After the Sun and the Alpha Centauri system, it is the nearest known star. Being a red dwarf with an apparent magnitude of 9.54, it is too faint to see without a telescope or powerful binoculars. Of the stars visible to the naked eye (conservatively limiting unaided visual magnitude to 6.0), 61 Cygni A (magnitude V= 5.20) has the highest proper motion at 5.281″ yr, discounting Groombridge 1830 (magnitude V= 6.42), proper motion: 7.058″ yr.