K-type star · orange

HR 7520

HR 7520 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 971 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,762 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 214× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 971 years ago.

971 lybrightness mag 6.39M1III

Also catalogued as HD 186702 · HIP 97142

3,762 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
214× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
971 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
214×
the Sun's light output
-0.98
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.