K-type star · orange

HR 7404

HR 7404 is an orange in the constellation Aquila 642 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,091 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 642 years ago.

642 lybrightness mag 6.25K2

Also catalogued as HD 183387 · HIP 95812

4,091 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
642 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.22
absolute magnitude
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Sky regionAquilathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquila

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.