F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6091
HR 6091 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 86.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,827 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 86 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 147365 · HIP 80008 · Gliese GJ 9557A
6,827 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
3.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
86 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
3.89×
the Sun's light output
3.37
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.