K-type star · orange

HR 7919

HR 7919 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 449 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,336 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 449 years ago.

449 lybrightness mag 5.97K2III

Also catalogued as HD 197139 · HIP 101986

4,336 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
67.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
449 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
67.42×
the Sun's light output
0.28
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.