F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6236
HR 6236 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ara 527 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,307 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 527 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 151566 · HIP 82418
7,307 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
59.81× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
527 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
59.81×
the Sun's light output
0.41
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.