K-type star · orange

HR 7456

HR 7456 is an orange in the constellation Aquila 1,212 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,048 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 488× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,212 years ago.

1,212 lybrightness mag 5.98G0Ib

Also catalogued as HD 185018 · HIP 96481

5,048 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
488× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,212 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
488×
the Sun's light output
-1.87
absolute magnitude
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HR 7456K-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.