K-type star · orange

HR 7007

HR 7007 is an orange in the constellation Scutum 582 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,740 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 130× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 582 years ago.

582 lybrightness mag 5.82K4III

Also catalogued as HD 172348 · HIP 91532

3,740 K
temperature
5.82
apparent magnitude
130× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
582 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
130×
the Sun's light output
-0.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 7007K-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.