K-type star · orange

HR 7398

HR 7398 is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 234 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,472 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 234 years ago.

234 lybrightness mag 5.46K1/K2III

Also catalogued as HD 183275 · HIP 95865 · Gliese GJ 9657A

4,472 K

temperature

5.46

apparent magnitude

29.35× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1/K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

234 years

at light speed from Earth

0.77×

as hot as the Sun

29.35×

the Sun's light output

1.18

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.