K-type star · orange

HR 7915

HR 7915 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 916 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,574 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 208× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 916 years ago.

916 lybrightness mag 6.30K1III

Also catalogued as HD 197093 · HIP 102230

4,574 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
208× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
916 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
208×
the Sun's light output
-0.94
absolute magnitude
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HR 7915K-type
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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.