G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 6345

HR 6345 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Draco 288 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,518 K, and it shines at 18.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 288 years ago.

288 lybrightness mag 6.41K0

Also catalogued as HD 154319 · HIP 83114

5,518 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
18.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
288 years
at light speed from Earth
0.96×
as hot as the Sun
18.52×
the Sun's light output
1.68
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.