K-type star · orange

HD 9690

1,121 lybrightness mag 6.44K0

Also catalogued as HIP 7362

4,049 K

temperature

6.44

apparent magnitude

273× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,121 years

at light speed from Earth

0.70×

as hot as the Sun

273×

the Sun's light output

-1.24

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 9690K-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 500 →80 ly apart
HD 13763 →230 ly apart
69 Cet →240 ly apart
HR 284 →260 ly apart
HD 11396 →260 ly apart
HD 9889 →280 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.