K-type star · orange
HD 156992
HD 156992 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 563 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,952 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 563 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 84947
3,952 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
74.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
563 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
74.27×
the Sun's light output
0.17
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.