K-type star · orange

HR 7148

HR 7148 is an orange in the constellation Hercules 301 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,532 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 301 years ago.

301 lybrightness mag 5.69K1III

Also catalogued as HD 175743 · HIP 92937

4,532 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
39.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
301 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
39.26×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 7148K-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 708618 ly
StarHR 699526 ly
Star1 Sge29 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.