K-type star · orange
18 Sge
18 Sge is an orange in the constellation Sagitta 331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,651 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 331 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7746 · HD 192836 · HIP 99913
4,651 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
32.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
331 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
32.36×
the Sun's light output
1.07
absolute magnitude
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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.