A-type star · white star

HR 6362

HR 6362 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 511 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,037 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 511 years ago.

511 lybrightness mag 6.45A3IV

Also catalogued as HD 154713 · HIP 83593

9,037 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
56.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
511 years
at light speed from Earth
1.57×
as hot as the Sun
56.29×
the Sun's light output
0.47
absolute magnitude
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HR 6362A-type
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.