K-type star · orange

HR 6208

HR 6208 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 431 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,093 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 431 years ago.

431 lybrightness mag 6.07K2

Also catalogued as HD 150580 · HIP 81670

4,093 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
56.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
431 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
56.75×
the Sun's light output
0.47
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.