K-type star · orange

HR 693

443 lybrightness mag 5.89K2III

Also catalogued as HD 14728 · HIP 11033

4,249 K

temperature

5.89

apparent magnitude

70.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

443 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

70.66×

the Sun's light output

0.23

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 693K-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 697 →32 ly apart
72Rho Cet →45 ly apart
89Pi Cet →69 ly apart
Gam1For →73 ly apart
Ayeyarwady →73 ly apart
HR 745 →75 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.