K-type star · orange

HR 6949

HR 6949 is an orange in the constellation Draco 398 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,794 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 398 years ago.

398 lybrightness mag 6.43K0IV

Also catalogued as HD 170811 · HIP 90476

4,794 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
34.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
398 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
34.80×
the Sun's light output
1.00
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.