K-type star · orange

HD 197900

HD 197900 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 524 years ago.

524 lybrightness mag 6.47K1IV

Also catalogued as HIP 102670

4,387 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
58.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
524 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
58.13×
the Sun's light output
0.44
absolute magnitude
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HD 197900K-type
Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction
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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.