K-type star · orange

HR 6542

303 lybrightness mag 5.68K0III:

Also catalogued as HD 159353 · HIP 85930

4,738 K

temperature

5.68

apparent magnitude

40.22× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

303 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

40.22×

the Sun's light output

0.84

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6542K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6577 →29 ly apart
HR 6521 →38 ly apart
HR 6655 →38 ly apart
HR 6342 →45 ly apart
HR 6676 →48 ly apart
53 Oph →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.