K-type star · orange

Epsilon Sge

Epsilon Sge is an orange in the constellation Sagitta 480 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,726 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 102× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 480 years ago.

480 lybrightness mag 5.67G8IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 7463 · HD 185194 · HIP 96516

4,726 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
102× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
480 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
102×
the Sun's light output
-0.17
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon SgeK-type
Sky regionSagittathis direction
StarHR 738440 ly
StarBeta Sge42 ly
Star11 Sge47 ly
StarGamma Sgestar
StarDelta Sgestar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sagitta
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagitta

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.