K-type star · orange

HR 7893

HR 7893 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,476 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 237 years ago.

237 lybrightness mag 5.47K1III

Also catalogued as HD 196737 · HIP 102014

4,476 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
29.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
237 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
29.79×
the Sun's light output
1.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 7893K-type
Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.