M-type star · red

HR 7966

HR 7966 is a red in the constellation Cygnus 1,152 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,641 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 297× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,152 years ago.

1,152 lybrightness mag 6.41K3III

Also catalogued as HD 198237 · HIP 102585

3,641 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
297× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,152 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
297×
the Sun's light output
-1.33
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.