K-type star · orange

Altais

Altais is an orange in the constellation Draco 97.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,767 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 97 years ago.

97.4 lybrightness mag 3.07G9III

Also catalogued as Delta Dra · HR 7310 · HD 180711 · HIP 94376

4,767 K
temperature
3.07
apparent magnitude
45.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
97 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
45.96×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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AltaisK-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
Star59 Dra17 ly
Star35 Dra20 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.