G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HD 150420
HD 150420 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Scorpius 309 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,354 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 309 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 81803
5,354 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
20.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
309 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
20.21×
the Sun's light output
1.59
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.