K-type star · orange
HR 686
HR 686 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 628 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,385 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 92.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 628 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 14509 · HIP 10832
4,385 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
92.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
628 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
92.38×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
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.