K-type star · orange
HR 6796
HR 6796 is an orange in the constellation Pavo 547 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,928 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 547 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 166251 · HIP 89370
3,928 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
63.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
547 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
63.33×
the Sun's light output
0.35
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.