K-type star · orange

HR 6867

HR 6867 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 597 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,088 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 115× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 597 years ago.

597 lybrightness mag 6.01K4III

Also catalogued as HD 168694 · HIP 89827

4,088 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
115× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
597 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
115×
the Sun's light output
-0.30
absolute magnitude
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HR 6867K-type
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.