M-type star · red

HR 7762

HR 7762 is a red in the constellation Cygnus 1,919 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,605 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 894× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,919 years ago.

1,919 lybrightness mag 6.32K4II:

Also catalogued as HD 193217 · HIP 100016

3,605 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
894× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4II:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,919 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
894×
the Sun's light output
-2.53
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.