K-type star · orange

HR 7867

HR 7867 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 300 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,757 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 300 years ago.

300 lybrightness mag 6.50K0III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 196134 · HIP 101467

4,757 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
18.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
300 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
18.55×
the Sun's light output
1.68
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.