K-type star · orange

HR 6687

435 lybrightness mag 5.62K3III

Also catalogued as HD 163547 · HIP 87777

4,215 K

temperature

5.62

apparent magnitude

87.50× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

435 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

87.50×

the Sun's light output

-0.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6687K-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

Bodu →21 ly apart
83 Her →40 ly apart
HR 6763 →43 ly apart
HR 6627 →52 ly apart
HR 6564 →55 ly apart
HR 6744 →59 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.