K-type star · orange

HR 7666

HR 7666 is an orange in the constellation Draco 450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,084 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 450 years ago.

450 lybrightness mag 6.32G8III

Also catalogued as HD 190252 · HIP 98333

5,084 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
49.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
450 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
49.25×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.