K-type star · orange

HR 690

HR 690 is an orange in the constellation Perseus 3,048 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,149 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,318× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 3,048 years ago.

3,048 lybrightness mag 6.29F7Ib

Also catalogued as HD 14662 · HIP 11174

5,149 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
2,318× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
3,048 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
2,318×
the Sun's light output
-3.56
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Perseus

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.