K-type star · orange

HR 6837

HR 6837 is an orange in the constellation Octans 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,362 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 388 years ago.

388 lybrightness mag 5.95K2III

Also catalogued as HD 167714 · HIP 90606

4,362 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
51.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
51.48×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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HR 6837K-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.