K-type star · orange
HR 7072
HR 7072 is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 1,019 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,991 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 222× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,019 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 173928 · HIP 92301
4,991 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
222× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V + K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,019 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
222×
the Sun's light output
-1.01
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.