K-type star · orange

HR 6675

HR 6675 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 290 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,356 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 290 years ago.

290 lybrightness mag 4.85K2III

Also catalogued as HD 163145 · HIP 87846

4,356 K
temperature
4.85
apparent magnitude
79.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
290 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
79.00×
the Sun's light output
0.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 6675K-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHR 681820 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.