K-type star · orange

HD 159558

457 lybrightness mag 6.48G8III

Also catalogued as HIP 86510

4,745 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
43.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
457 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
43.73×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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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.