K-type star · orange

HR 6899

HR 6899 is an orange in the constellation Pavo 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,762 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 355 years ago.

355 lybrightness mag 5.88K0III

Also catalogued as HD 169570 · HIP 90930

4,762 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
45.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
355 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
45.84×
the Sun's light output
0.70
absolute magnitude
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HR 6899K-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
StarHD 17500730 ly
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Bright stars in Pavo
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pavo

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.