K-type star · orange

HR 7016

HR 7016 is an orange in the constellation Lyra 536 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,996 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 536 years ago.

536 lybrightness mag 6.43K0

Also catalogued as HD 172631 · HIP 91533

4,996 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
62.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
536 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
62.92×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 7016K-type
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lyra

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.