K-type star · orange dwarf
HD 156026
HD 156026 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Ophiuchus 19.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,422 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 19 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 84478 · Gliese Gl 664
4,422 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
0.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
19 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
0.09×
the Sun's light output
7.45
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.