F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6552
HR 6552 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Octans 220 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,689 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 220 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 159517 · HIP 88274
6,689 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
10.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
220 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
10.46×
the Sun's light output
2.30
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.