G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 6269
HR 6269 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ophiuchus 87.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,653 K, and it shines at 2.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 88 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 152311 · HIP 82621
5,653 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
2.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
88 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
2.86×
the Sun's light output
3.71
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.