K-type star · orange

HR 7923

HR 7923 is an orange in the constellation Delphinus 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,886 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 485 years ago.

485 lybrightness mag 6.24G8III

Also catalogued as HD 197249 · HIP 102158

4,886 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
61.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
61.55×
the Sun's light output
0.38
absolute magnitude
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HR 7923K-type
Sky regionDelphinusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Delphinus

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.