K-type star · orange

HR 7785

HR 7785 is an orange in the constellation Octans 522 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 522 years ago.

522 lybrightness mag 5.76G6/G8II

Also catalogued as HD 193721 · HIP 101427

4,468 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
522 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.26
absolute magnitude
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HR 7785K-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarHR 691242 ly
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StarNu Octstar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.