K-type star · orange

HR 6908

HR 6908 is an orange in the constellation Pavo 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,774 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 5.74K0III

Also catalogued as HD 169836 · HIP 90664

4,774 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
41.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
318 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
41.92×
the Sun's light output
0.79
absolute magnitude
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HR 6908K-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.