K-type star · orange
HR 6528
HR 6528 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,841 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 394 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 158974 · HIP 85715
4,841 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
71.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
71.25×
the Sun's light output
0.22
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.