K-type star · orange

HR 6487

HR 6487 is an orange in the constellation Ara 985 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,487 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 338× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 985 years ago.

985 lybrightness mag 5.93G8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 157819 · HIP 85520

4,487 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
338× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
985 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
338×
the Sun's light output
-1.47
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.