K-type star · orange

HR 6659

HR 6659 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,459 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 6.33K0

Also catalogued as HD 162596 · HIP 87428

4,459 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
31.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
362 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
31.45×
the Sun's light output
1.11
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.