K-type star · orange

HR 6686

HR 6686 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 400 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,385 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 400 years ago.

400 lybrightness mag 5.44G9III

Also catalogued as HD 163532 · HIP 87847

4,385 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
87.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
400 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
87.42×
the Sun's light output
-0.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.