K-type star · orange

HR 7523

HR 7523 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 819 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,704 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 157× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 819 years ago.

819 lybrightness mag 6.36M3III

Also catalogued as HD 186776 · HIP 97151

3,704 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
157× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
819 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
157×
the Sun's light output
-0.64
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.