K-type star · orange

Xihe

Xihe is an orange in the constellation Lyra 455 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,649 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 455 years ago.

455 lybrightness mag 6.04G8

Also catalogued as HR 7043 · HD 173416 · HIP 91852

4,649 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
64.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
455 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
64.98×
the Sun's light output
0.32
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.0To 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.