K-type star · orange

HR 7970

647 lybrightness mag 6.42K5III

Also catalogued as HD 198356 · HIP 102901

3,774 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

92.73× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

647 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

92.73×

the Sun's light output

-0.07

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7970K-type

Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7832 →70 ly apart
HR 7856 →73 ly apart
HR 7991 →79 ly apart
HR 7971 →87 ly apart
HR 7817 →94 ly apart
HR 8124 →97 ly apart

Bright stars in Microscopium

Gam Mic →mag 4.7
Eps Mic →mag 4.7
The1Mic →mag 4.8
Alp Mic →mag 4.9
Iot Mic →mag 5.1
Nu Mic →mag 5.1
Zet Mic →mag 5.3
Eta Mic →mag 5.5

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.