K-type star · orange

HR 7282

HR 7282 is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 542 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,883 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 542 years ago.

542 lybrightness mag 5.51K3III

Also catalogued as HD 179497 · HIP 94437

3,883 K

temperature

5.51

apparent magnitude

150× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

542 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

150×

the Sun's light output

-0.59

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.