K-type star · orange

HR 6818

HR 6818 is an orange in the constellation Corona Australis 300 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,836 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 300 years ago.

300 lybrightness mag 5.45G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HD 167096 · HIP 89507

4,836 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
48.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
300 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
48.80×
the Sun's light output
0.63
absolute magnitude
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HR 6818K-type
Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction
StarHR 667520 ly
StarAlpha Tel26 ly
StarHR 678634 ly
StarBeta CrAstar
StarMeridianastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Corona Australis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.