K-type star · orange
HD 185114
HD 185114 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 345 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 345 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 96316
4,468 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
27.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
345 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
27.11×
the Sun's light output
1.27
absolute magnitude
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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.