F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6593

HR 6593 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 1,510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,684 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 514× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,510 years ago.

1,510 lybrightness mag 6.40F0III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 160839 · HIP 86725

6,684 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
514× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,510 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
514×
the Sun's light output
-1.93
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.