K-type star · orange

HR 7472

HR 7472 is an orange in the constellation Vulpecula 551 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,656 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 551 years ago.

551 lybrightness mag 6.50K0III

Also catalogued as HD 185436 · HIP 96601

4,656 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
62.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
551 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
62.40×
the Sun's light output
0.36
absolute magnitude
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HR 7472K-type
Sky regionVulpeculathis direction
Star9 Vul13 ly
StarDelta Sge53 ly
Star8 Vul56 ly
StarAnserstar
Star23 Vulstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vulpecula
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vulpecula

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.