M-type star · red

HR 6667

HR 6667 is a red in the constellation Ophiuchus 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,687 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 368 years ago.

368 lybrightness mag 5.91K5III

Also catalogued as HD 162774 · HIP 87491

3,687 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
47.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
47.86×
the Sun's light output
0.65
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ophiuchus

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.