K-type star · orange

HR 6550

HR 6550 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 325 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,539 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 325 years ago.

325 lybrightness mag 5.72K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 159501 · HIP 85888

4,539 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
44.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
325 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
44.42×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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HR 6550K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 644422 ly
Star90 Her38 ly
StarHR 667447 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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.