K-type star · orange

HR 6799

403 lybrightness mag 6.36K1III:

Also catalogued as HD 166411 · HIP 88929

4,321 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

37.95× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

403 years

at light speed from Earth

0.75×

as hot as the Sun

37.95×

the Sun's light output

0.90

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6799K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6917 →26 ly apart
HR 6904 →37 ly apart
HR 6807 →43 ly apart
HR 6591 →50 ly apart
HR 6711 →53 ly apart
HR 6968 →56 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.