K-type star · orange

HR 6479

HR 6479 is an orange in the constellation Draco 624 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,850 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 169× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 624 years ago.

624 lybrightness mag 5.69K5III

Also catalogued as HD 157681 · HIP 84950

3,850 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
169× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
624 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
169×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
absolute magnitude
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HR 6479K-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.