K-type star · orange

HR 6472

HR 6472 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 302 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,894 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 302 years ago.

302 lybrightness mag 5.82K0III

Also catalogued as HD 157527 · HIP 85207

4,894 K
temperature
5.82
apparent magnitude
35.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
302 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
35.03×
the Sun's light output
0.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 6472K-type
Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction
StarOmicron Oph18 ly
StarOmicron Oph26 ly
Star24 Oph35 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ophiuchus

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.