K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 7972

HR 7972 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Cygnus 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,042 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 139 years ago.

139 lybrightness mag 6.29K0V:

Also catalogued as HD 198387 · HIP 102642

5,042 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
4.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0V:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
139 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
4.80×
the Sun's light output
3.15
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.