G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 6516

HR 6516 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ophiuchus 53.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,551 K, and it shines at 1.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 53 years ago.

53.3 lybrightness mag 5.31G8IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 158614 · HIP 85667 · Gliese Gl 678A

5,551 K

temperature

5.31

apparent magnitude

1.75× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

53 years

at light speed from Earth

0.96×

as hot as the Sun

1.75×

the Sun's light output

4.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 6516G-type

Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction

StarGliese Gl 678B0.33 ly

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Ophiuchus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.