F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6552

220 lybrightness mag 6.45F4V

Also catalogued as HD 159517 · HIP 88274

6,689 K

temperature

6.45

apparent magnitude

10.46× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

220 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

10.46×

the Sun's light output

2.30

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6552F-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Rho Oct →13 ly apart
HR 5491 →16 ly apart
HR 7698 →31 ly apart
HR 8234 →34 ly apart
Chi Oct →38 ly apart
Phi Oct →45 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.