M-type star · red

HR 6693

HR 6693 is a red in the constellation Sagittarius 1,013 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,576 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 840× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,013 years ago.

1,013 lybrightness mag 5.00K5/M0III

Also catalogued as HD 163755 · HIP 88060

3,576 K

temperature

5.00

apparent magnitude

840× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5/M0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,013 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

840×

the Sun's light output

-2.46

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.