K-type star · orange

HR 6474

HR 6474 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 412 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,508 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 412 years ago.

412 lybrightness mag 6.17K0III

Also catalogued as HD 157588 · HIP 85242

4,508 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
47.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
412 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
47.25×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.