K-type star · orange

Rho Dra

Rho Dra is an orange in the constellation Draco 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,098 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 236× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.

429 lybrightness mag 4.51K3III

Also catalogued as HR 7685 · HD 190940 · HIP 98702

4,098 K
temperature
4.51
apparent magnitude
236× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
236×
the Sun's light output
-1.08
absolute magnitude
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Rho DraK-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
StarHR 754517 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.