K-type star · orange

HR 6980

471 lybrightness mag 5.62G8III

Also catalogued as HD 171745 · HIP 91139

4,707 K

temperature

5.62

apparent magnitude

102× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

471 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

102×

the Sun's light output

-0.18

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6980K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

113 Her →37 ly apart
HR 6763 →59 ly apart
HR 6955 →64 ly apart
112 Her →73 ly apart
HR 7198 →74 ly apart
HR 6687 →81 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.