A-type star · white star

HR 6559

368 lybrightness mag 6.11A7IV

Also catalogued as HD 159834 · HIP 86118

8,289 K

temperature

6.11

apparent magnitude

39.92× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A7IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

368 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

39.92×

the Sun's light output

0.85

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6559A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

Maasym →34 ly apart
HR 6744 →45 ly apart
83 Her →46 ly apart
HR 6364 →51 ly apart
HR 6604 →52 ly apart
Rasalgethi →54 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.