K-type star · orange

HR 6807

HR 6807 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,957 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 394 years ago.

394 lybrightness mag 5.57G8III

Also catalogued as HD 166640 · HIP 89008

4,957 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
75.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
75.16×
the Sun's light output
0.16
absolute magnitude
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HR 6807K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 671129 ly
StarHR 685333 ly
StarHR 679943 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.