K-type star · orange

HR 6087

HR 6087 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,897 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 320 years ago.

320 lybrightness mag 6.04G8II

Also catalogued as HD 147266 · HIP 80021

4,897 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
32.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
320 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
32.18×
the Sun's light output
1.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 6087K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.