K-type star · orange
HD 149198
HD 149198 is an orange in the constellation Draco 672 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,768 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 672 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 80682
3,768 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
97.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
672 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
97.36×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
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.