K-type star · orange

HR 6894

HR 6894 is an orange in the constellation Telescopium 498 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,120 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 135× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 498 years ago.

498 lybrightness mag 5.44K0/K1III+..

Also catalogued as HD 169405 · HIP 90414

5,120 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
135× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III+..
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
498 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
135×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Telescopium

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.