K-type star · orange
HR 7931
HR 7931 is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 474 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,876 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 474 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 197540 · HIP 102414
4,876 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
46.22× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
474 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
46.22×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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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.