K-type star · orange

HR 7237

HR 7237 is an orange in the constellation Lyra 619 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,723 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 176× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 619 years ago.

619 lybrightness mag 5.63M0III

Also catalogued as HD 177808 · HIP 93718

3,723 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
176× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
619 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
176×
the Sun's light output
-0.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lyra

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.