K-type star · orange

HR 6634

HR 6634 is an orange in the constellation Pavo 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,545 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 6.48K0/K1III

Also catalogued as HD 161955 · HIP 87564

4,545 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
50.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
493 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
50.86×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 6634K-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pavo

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.