K-type star · orange

HR 6550

325 lybrightness mag 5.72K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 159501 · HIP 85888

4,539 K

temperature

5.72

apparent magnitude

44.42× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

325 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

44.42×

the Sun's light output

0.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6550K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6444 →22 ly apart
90 Her →38 ly apart
HR 6674 →47 ly apart
HR 6388 →49 ly apart
HR 6506 →51 ly apart
82 Her →52 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.