K-type star · orange

HR 7281

HR 7281 is an orange in the constellation Corona Australis 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,991 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 5.91G8III

Also catalogued as HD 179433 · HIP 94556

4,991 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
31.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
298 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
31.42×
the Sun's light output
1.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 7281K-type
Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.