K-type star · orange

HR 697

HR 697 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 411 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,886 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 411 years ago.

411 lybrightness mag 6.22G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 14830 · HIP 11108

4,886 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

45.04× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

411 years

at light speed from Earth

0.85×

as hot as the Sun

45.04×

the Sun's light output

0.72

absolute magnitude

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HR 697K-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.