K-type star · orange

HR 6635

HR 6635 is an orange in the constellation Apus 606 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,299 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 606 years ago.

606 lybrightness mag 6.08K2III

Also catalogued as HD 161988 · HIP 87926

4,299 K
temperature
6.08
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
606 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.27
absolute magnitude
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HR 6635K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Apus

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.