HAT-P-6 is 898 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 6,570 K star; the first was found in 2007 by transit (HATNet).
Fly there in 3DHAT-P-6 b goes round its star every 3.85 days, 23 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Surface temperature | 6,570 K |
| Mass | 1.79 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.62 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 3.57 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 10.469 |
| Age | about 2.3 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 898.1 light-years (275.4 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 354.7741°, Dec 42.4660° |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAT-P-6 b | 3.85 days | 0.0524 AU | 16.589 R⊕ | 419.54 M⊕ | Transit, 2007 |
Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.
For a star of 6,570 K, 3.6 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.71 to 2.97 AU. None of its known planets orbits inside it. The zone says how much starlight arrives, not whether a planet has water or air. The edges follow Kopparapu et al. (2014), as the 3D view draws them.
The light you see left 898 years ago, around 1130.