K-type star · orange
HD 67690
HD 67690 is an orange in the constellation Cancer 845 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,918 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 155× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 845 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 40007
3,918 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
155× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
845 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
155×
the Sun's light output
-0.63
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.