G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 1691
HR 1691 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Orion 637 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,735 K, and it shines at 148× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 637 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 33646 · HIP 24203
5,735 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
148× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
637 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
148×
the Sun's light output
-0.57
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.