K-type star · orange
HR 6678
HR 6678 is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 489 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,932 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 489 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 163234 · HIP 87865
3,932 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
51.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
489 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
51.00×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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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.