HR 2562 is 111 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this F5 V star; the first was found in 2016 by imaging (Gemini Observatory).
Fly there in 3DHR 2562 b was photographed directly: it is one of the few exoplanets seen as its own point of light rather than inferred from its star.
Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.
| Spectral type | F5 V |
| Surface temperature | 6,597 K |
| Mass | 1.3 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.334 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 3.4 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 6.11 |
| Age | about 0.6 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 110.9 light-years (34.0 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 102.5043°, Dec -60.2487° |
| Constellation | Pictor |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2562 b | 91.7 years from Kepler’s law | 22.200 AU | 12.442 R⊕ | 6992.2 M⊕ | Imaging, 2016 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.
For a star of 6,597 K, 3.4 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.67 to 2.90 AU. None of its known planets orbits inside it. The zone says how much starlight arrives, not whether a planet has water or air. The edges follow Kopparapu et al. (2014), as the 3D view draws them.
The light you see left 111 years ago, around 1920.