K-type star · orange

HR 7271

HR 7271 is an orange in the constellation Telescopium 402 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,856 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 402 years ago.

402 lybrightness mag 6.12G8III

Also catalogued as HD 178845 · HIP 94398

4,856 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
47.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
402 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
47.08×
the Sun's light output
0.67
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Telescopium

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.