G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 6950
Also catalogued as HD 170829 · HIP 90729
5,296 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
2.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
113 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
2.64×
the Sun's light output
3.80
absolute magnitude
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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.