K-type star · orange
9 Dra
9 Dra is an orange in the constellation Draco 625 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,154 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 227× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 625 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4928 · HD 113092 · HIP 63432
4,154 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
227× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
625 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
227×
the Sun's light output
-1.04
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.