K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 6892

HR 6892 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Scutum 310 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 310 years ago.

310 lybrightness mag 6.28K0

Also catalogued as HD 169370 · HIP 90238

4,387 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
24.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
310 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
24.21×
the Sun's light output
1.39
absolute magnitude
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HR 6892K-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHD 1699138.7 ly
StarHR 687830 ly
StarHR 697032 ly
StarAlpha Sctstar
StarBeta Sctstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scutum
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scutum

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.