G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HD 168871

92.2 lybrightness mag 6.45G2V

Also catalogued as HIP 90223

5,995 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
1.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
92 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
1.83×
the Sun's light output
4.19
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.