K-type star · orange

HR 6937

HR 6937 is an orange in the constellation Corona Australis 1,102 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,082 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 517× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,102 years ago.

1,102 lybrightness mag 5.71K2III

Also catalogued as HD 170521 · HIP 90842

4,082 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
517× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,102 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
517×
the Sun's light output
-1.93
absolute magnitude
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HR 6937K-type
Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction
StarHR 6804100 ly
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Bright stars in Corona Australis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.