K-type star · orange
7 Boo
7 Boo is an orange in the constellation Boötes 690 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,149 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 202× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 690 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5225 · HD 121107 · HIP 67787
5,149 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
202× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
690 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
202×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
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.