K-type star · orange

HR 6966

HR 6966 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 753 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,809 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 207× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 753 years ago.

753 lybrightness mag 5.88K5III

Also catalogued as HD 171245 · HIP 90915

3,809 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
207× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
753 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
207×
the Sun's light output
-0.94
absolute magnitude
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HR 6966K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
Star98 Her84 ly
Star97 Her93 ly
StarHR 718394 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.