K-type star · orange

HR 6799

HR 6799 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 403 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,321 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 403 years ago.

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
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HR 6799K-type
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Bright stars in Hercules
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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.