K-type star · orange
HD 159558
HD 159558 is an orange in the constellation Apus 457 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,745 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 457 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 86510
4,745 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
43.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
457 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
43.73×
the Sun's light output
0.75
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.