K-type star · orange

HR 7442

HR 7442 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 1,326 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,727 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 573× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,326 years ago.

1,326 lybrightness mag 6.00M4.5III

Also catalogued as HD 184786 · HIP 96198

3,727 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
573× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,326 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
573×
the Sun's light output
-2.04
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.