K-type star · orange

HR 7743

HR 7743 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,928 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 5.70K0III

Also catalogued as HD 192787 · HIP 99841

4,928 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
43.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
318 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
43.41×
the Sun's light output
0.76
absolute magnitude
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HR 7743K-type
Sky regionCygnusthis direction
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Bright stars in Cygnus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.