K-type star · orange

HR 7788

HR 7788 is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 522 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,962 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 522 years ago.

522 lybrightness mag 6.29G5II-III

Also catalogued as HD 193896 · HIP 100524

4,962 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
67.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
522 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
67.98×
the Sun's light output
0.27
absolute magnitude
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HR 7788K-type
Sky regionCapricornusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Capricornus

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.