K-type star · orange
59 Sgr
59 Sgr is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 832 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,852 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 866× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 832 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7604 · HD 188603 · HIP 98162
3,852 K
temperature
4.54
apparent magnitude
866× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
832 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
866×
the Sun's light output
-2.49
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.