K-type star · orange

HR 7407

HR 7407 is an orange in the constellation Aquila 299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,626 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 299 years ago.

299 lybrightness mag 5.57K0III

Also catalogued as HD 183492 · HIP 95822

4,626 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
43.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
299 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
43.37×
the Sun's light output
0.76
absolute magnitude
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HR 7407K-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.