G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HD 165784
HD 165784 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Sagittarius 1,450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,420 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 465× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,450 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 88876
5,420 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
465× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3Iab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,450 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
465×
the Sun's light output
-1.82
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.