K-type star · orange
HR 6658
HR 6658 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 824 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,519 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 326× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 824 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 162587 · HIP 87569
4,519 K
temperature
5.58
apparent magnitude
326× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
824 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
326×
the Sun's light output
-1.43
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.