HD 177693

HD 177693 (HR 7233; 48 G. Telescopii) is a solitary orange-hued star located in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.45, placing it near the limit for naked eye visibility, even under ideal conditions. Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 376 light-years, and it is drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of $$. At its current distance, HD 177693's brightness is diminished by 0.24 magnitudes due to interstellar extinction and it has an absolute magnitude of +1.03.

HD 177693 has a stellar classification of K1 III, indicating that it is an evolved orange giant. David Stanley Evans gave a less evolved class of K1 IV, instead indicating that it is a slightly evolved subgiant. It has 1.25 times the mass of the Sun but it has expanded to 10.6 times the radius of the Sun. It radiates 50.2 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of $$. HD 177693 is slightly metal deficient with an iron abundance of [Fe/H] = −0.10 and it spins with a projected rotational velocity lower than $$.