K-type star · orange
HR 6777
HR 6777 is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,684 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 351 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 165978 · HIP 89010
4,684 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
28.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
351 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
28.11×
the Sun's light output
1.23
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.