K-type star · orange
56 Her
56 Her is an orange in the constellation Hercules 446 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,941 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 446 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6292 · HD 152863 · HIP 82780
4,941 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
61.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
446 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
61.38×
the Sun's light output
0.38
absolute magnitude
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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.