K-type star · orange

Chi³ Sgr

Chi³ Sgr is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,883 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 135× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 5.45K3III

Also catalogued as HR 7363 · HD 182416 · HIP 95503

3,883 K

temperature

5.45

apparent magnitude

135× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

499 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

135×

the Sun's light output

-0.47

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.