K-type star · orange

HR 7768

HR 7768 is an orange in the constellation Aquila 393 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,530 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 393 years ago.

393 lybrightness mag 6.05K0

Also catalogued as HD 193329 · HIP 100232

4,530 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
48.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
393 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
48.08×
the Sun's light output
0.65
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquila

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.