K-type star · orange

HR 7659

HR 7659 is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,293 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.

291 lybrightness mag 4.99K1III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 190056 · HIP 98842

4,293 K

temperature

4.99

apparent magnitude

69.82× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III/IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

291 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

69.82×

the Sun's light output

0.24

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.