K-type star · orange

HR 7428

HR 7428 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 1,186 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,466 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 326× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,186 years ago.

1,186 lybrightness mag 6.37K2II-IIIcomp

Also catalogued as HD 184398 · HIP 96003

4,466 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
326× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2II-IIIcomp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,186 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
326×
the Sun's light output
-1.43
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.