K-type star · orange
HR 698
HR 698 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 446 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,764 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 446 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 14832 · HIP 11043
4,764 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
49.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
446 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
49.20×
the Sun's light output
0.62
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.