K-type star · orange
Xi² Sgr
Xi² Sgr is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 365 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,407 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 427× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 365 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7150 · HD 175775 · HIP 93085
4,407 K
temperature
3.52
apparent magnitude
427× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
365 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
427×
the Sun's light output
-1.73
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.