K-type star · orange

HR 7487

HR 7487 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 412 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,915 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 412 years ago.

412 lybrightness mag 6.25K0III

Also catalogued as HD 185955 · HIP 96706

4,915 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
44.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
412 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
44.01×
the Sun's light output
0.74
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.