F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6504

HR 6504 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,088 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 6.37F5IV

Also catalogued as HD 158170 · HIP 85474

6,088 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
23.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
318 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
23.38×
the Sun's light output
1.43
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.