K-type star · orange
HR 7801
HR 7801 is an orange in the constellation Sagittarius 502 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,513 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 502 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 194215 · HIP 100738
4,513 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
93.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
502 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
93.33×
the Sun's light output
-0.07
absolute magnitude
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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.