M-type star · red

HR 7759

HR 7759 is a red in the constellation Cygnus 1,576 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,581 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,585× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,576 years ago.

1,576 lybrightness mag 5.27K5II

Also catalogued as HD 193092 · HIP 99968

3,581 K
temperature
5.27
apparent magnitude
1,585× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,576 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
1,585×
the Sun's light output
-3.15
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.