K-type star · orange
HD 156860
HD 156860 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 507 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,813 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 507 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 84780
3,813 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
56.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
507 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
56.44×
the Sun's light output
0.47
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.