K-type star · orange

HR 6862

485 lybrightness mag 5.09K4/K5III

Also catalogued as HD 168592 · HIP 90037

3,797 K

temperature

5.09

apparent magnitude

177× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4/K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

485 years

at light speed from Earth

0.66×

as hot as the Sun

177×

the Sun's light output

-0.77

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6862K-type

Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6678 →44 ly apart
HR 6875 →46 ly apart
HR 7029 →48 ly apart
HR 6682 →56 ly apart
HR 6613 →59 ly apart
Eta2CrA →59 ly apart

Bright stars in Corona Australis

Bet CrA →mag 4.1
Meridiana →mag 4.1
Gam CrA →mag 4.2
Del CrA →mag 4.6
The CrA →mag 4.6
Zet CrA →mag 4.7
Eps CrA →mag 4.8
Gam CrA →mag 5.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.