K-type star · orange

HR 7509

HR 7509 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 1,032 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,866 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 236× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,032 years ago.

1,032 lybrightness mag 6.42M5IIIa

Also catalogued as HD 186532 · HIP 96919

3,866 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
236× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5IIIa
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,032 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
236×
the Sun's light output
-1.08
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.