K-type star · orange

HD 195902

HD 195902 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 463 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,846 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 463 years ago.

463 lybrightness mag 6.36K1III

Also catalogued as HIP 101623

4,846 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
50.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
463 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
50.21×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
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HD 195902K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Microscopium

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.