K-type star · orange

HR 7971

HR 7971 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 588 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,983 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 175× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 588 years ago.

588 lybrightness mag 5.52K3III

Also catalogued as HD 198357 · HIP 102916

3,983 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
175× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
588 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
175×
the Sun's light output
-0.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.