G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 7293
HR 7293 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cygnus 79.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,721 K, and it shines at 2.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 80 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 179957 · HIP 94336 · Gliese GJ 9648B
5,721 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
2.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
80 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
2.38×
the Sun's light output
3.91
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.