Exoplanet · gas giant
HAT-P-6 b
HAT-P-6 b is a gas giant orbiting the star Sterrennacht. Its year lasts 3.85 Earth days. It was discovered in 2007 by the Transit method.
| Host star | Sterrennacht |
|---|---|
| Distance | 898.1 light-years (275.4 pc) |
| Orbital period | 3.85 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.0524 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Radius | 16.6 R⊕ · 1.48 R♃ |
| Mass | 420 M⊕ · 1.32 M♃ |
| Density | 0.558 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 1.52 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 1,675 K (1,402 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 1,100 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Transit |
| Discovery year | 2007 |
| Discovered by | HATNet |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 1,100 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 16° across: 31 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 10.52. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 48° S. North of latitude 48° N it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in September, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1128. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 16 million years.
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.