K-type star · orange

24 Vul

24 Vul is an orange in the constellation Vulpecula 438 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,864 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 438 years ago.

438 lybrightness mag 5.30G8III

Also catalogued as HR 7753 · HD 192944 · HIP 99951

4,864 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
438 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vulpecula

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.