K-type star · orange
HR 6706
HR 6706 is an orange in the constellation Ophiuchus 560 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,704 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 116× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 560 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 164064 · HIP 88101
3,704 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
116× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
560 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
116×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
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.