HD 163607 is 221 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this G5 star; the first was found in 2012 by radial velocity (W. M. Keck Observatory).
Fly there in 3DHD 163607 b goes round its star every 75.2 days, 1.2 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.
| Spectral type | G5 |
| Surface temperature | 5,522 K |
| Mass | 1.12 solar masses |
| Radius | 1.76 solar radii |
| Luminosity | 2.63 times the Sun |
| Apparent magnitude | 8 |
| Age | about 8.6 billion years |
| Distance from the Sun | 221.1 light-years (67.8 parsecs) |
| Position (J2000) | RA 268.4181°, Dec 56.3925° |
| Constellation | Draco |
| Planet | Year | Orbit | Radius | Mass | Found |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD 163607 b | 75.2 days | 0.362 AU | 13.9 R⊕ estimated | 249.05 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2012 |
| HD 163607 c | 3.5 years | 2.390 AU | 13.3 R⊕ estimated | 699.54 M⊕ minimum | Radial Velocity, 2012 |
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 5,522 K, 2.6 times as bright as the Sun, the habitable zone, where starlight could keep water liquid on a rocky surface, runs from about 1.56 to 2.78 AU. 1 of its 2 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 221 years ago, around 1800.