K-type star · orange

HR 6768

HR 6768 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 692 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,350 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 202× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 692 years ago.

692 lybrightness mag 5.72K0III

Also catalogued as HD 165683 · HIP 88636

4,350 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
202× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
692 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
202×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
absolute magnitude
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HR 6768K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
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Bright stars in Hercules
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.