K-type star · orange

HR 6592

HR 6592 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 528 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,301 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 528 years ago.

528 lybrightness mag 6.37K1III+...

Also catalogued as HD 160835 · HIP 86537

4,301 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
64.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
528 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
64.57×
the Sun's light output
0.33
absolute magnitude
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HR 6592K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 664253 ly
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.