K-type star · orange

HR 7071

HR 7071 is an orange in the constellation Draco 974 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,166 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 243× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 974 years ago.

974 lybrightness mag 6.26G5III

Also catalogued as HD 173920 · HIP 91985

5,166 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
243× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
974 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
243×
the Sun's light output
-1.11
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.