K-type star · orange

HR 6433

HR 6433 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,736 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 193× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 5.03K4II-III

Also catalogued as HD 156681 · HIP 84671

3,736 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
193× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
493 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
193×
the Sun's light output
-0.87
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ophiuchus

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.