K-type star · orange

HR 6970

329 lybrightness mag 5.12G8III

Also catalogued as HD 171391 · HIP 91105

4,928 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

79.43× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

329 years

at light speed from Earth

0.85×

as hot as the Sun

79.43×

the Sun's light output

0.10

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6970K-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6878 →18 ly apart
HD 169913 →24 ly apart
Gam Sct →24 ly apart
HR 6932 →26 ly apart
HR 7110 →27 ly apart
HR 6892 →32 ly apart

Bright stars in Scutum

Alp Sct →mag 3.9
Bet Sct →mag 4.2
Zet Sct →mag 4.7
Gam Sct →mag 4.7
Del Sct →mag 4.7
Eta Sct →mag 4.8
Eps Sct →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.