F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6290

HR 6290 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 253 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,223 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 253 years ago.

253 lybrightness mag 6.35F5II

Also catalogued as HD 152830 · HIP 82798

7,223 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
15.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
253 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
15.12×
the Sun's light output
1.90
absolute magnitude
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HR 6290F-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 63419.4 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.