K-type star · orange
HR 6442
HR 6442 is an orange in the constellation Ara 395 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,757 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 395 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 156854 · HIP 85068
4,757 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
63.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
395 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
63.56×
the Sun's light output
0.34
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.