K-type star · orange

HR 6444

HR 6444 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 317 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,716 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 317 years ago.

317 lybrightness mag 5.97G7III:

Also catalogued as HD 156891 · HIP 84656

4,716 K

temperature

5.97

apparent magnitude

33.60× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G7III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

317 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

33.60×

the Sun's light output

1.03

absolute magnitude

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HR 6444K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

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Bright stars in Hercules

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.