K-type star · orange

HR 7888

HR 7888 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 365 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,716 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 365 years ago.

365 lybrightness mag 6.21K0III

Also catalogued as HD 196642 · HIP 101756

4,716 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
35.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
365 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
35.84×
the Sun's light output
0.96
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
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.