K-type star · orange

HR 7492

HR 7492 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 1,681 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,704 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 788× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,681 years ago.

1,681 lybrightness mag 6.17M2III

Also catalogued as HD 186121 · HIP 96805

3,704 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
788× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,681 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
788×
the Sun's light output
-2.39
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.