K-type star · orange

HR 7910

HR 7910 is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 565 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,262 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 565 years ago.

565 lybrightness mag 6.29K2III

Also catalogued as HD 196947 · HIP 102094

4,262 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
79.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
565 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
79.73×
the Sun's light output
0.10
absolute magnitude
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HR 7910K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Capricornus

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.