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HD 156668 is star in the northern constellation of Hercules constellation. With an apparent visual magnitude of 8.4 it is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye but it can be seen with even a small telescope. The distance to this object has been determined directly using the parallax technique yielding a value of about 80 light-years (25 parsecs).This star has the stellar classification of a K2 dwarf with approximately 77% of the mass of the Sun and about 72% of the Sun’s diameter.