K-type star · orange

HR 6763

HR 6763 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 474 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,230 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 474 years ago.

474 lybrightness mag 6.18K3III:

Also catalogued as HD 165524 · HIP 88604

4,230 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
62.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
474 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
62.06×
the Sun's light output
0.37
absolute magnitude
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HR 6763K-type
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.