K-type star · orange
HR 7229
HR 7229 is an orange in the constellation Draco 698 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,784 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 115× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 698 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 177483 · HIP 93466
4,784 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
115× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III:...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
698 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
115×
the Sun's light output
-0.30
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.