K-type star · orange

HR 7962

HR 7962 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 446 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,449 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 446 years ago.

446 lybrightness mag 6.34K0

Also catalogued as HD 198181 · HIP 102499

4,449 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
47.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
446 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
47.29×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.