K-type star · orange

HR 7555

HR 7555 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 700 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,980 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 143× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 700 years ago.

700 lybrightness mag 6.12G6III

Also catalogued as HD 187638 · HIP 97538

4,980 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
143× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
700 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
143×
the Sun's light output
-0.54
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.