M-type star · red
HD 159968
Also catalogued as HIP 86153
3,669 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
138× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
771 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
138×
the Sun's light output
-0.50
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.