F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6604
HR 6604 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 392 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,745 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 392 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 161149 · HIP 86732
6,745 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
41.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
392 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
41.00×
the Sun's light output
0.82
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.