K-type star · orange

HR 7802

HR 7802 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 336 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,848 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 336 years ago.

336 lybrightness mag 6.20K0IIIvar

Also catalogued as HD 194220 · HIP 100515

4,848 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
30.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
336 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
30.59×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.