K-type star · orange

HR 7427

HR 7427 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 462 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,168 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 105× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 462 years ago.

462 lybrightness mag 5.55K1III

Also catalogued as HD 184293 · HIP 96014

4,168 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
105× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
462 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
105×
the Sun's light output
-0.21
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cygnus

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.