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Loading contentHR 6152 is a yellow dwarf in the constellation Hercules (Herculis), lying about 628.4 light-years from Earth.
Class G. Yellow stars like the Sun. On the main sequence they steadily fuse hydrogen into helium. Such stars have surface temperatures around 5,200–6,000 K and appear yellow to the eye.
| Spectral type | G8p |
| Apparent magnitude | 5.24 |
| Absolute magnitude | -1.18 |
| Luminosity (Sun = 1) | 259 |
| Colour index (B−V) | 1.274 |
| Distance | 628.4 ly (192.68 pc) |
Values are real catalogue data; fields without a reliable value are omitted, never estimated.
A yellow dwarf is a G-type main-sequence star like the Sun. After about ten billion years it will swell into a red giant and finally leave behind a white dwarf.
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Aggregated, openly-licensed star catalogue combining Hipparcos, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
High-precision parallax, magnitude, and position for ~118,000 stars.