K-type star · orange

HR 7987

HR 7987 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 400 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,090 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 95.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 400 years ago.

400 lybrightness mag 5.34K2III

Also catalogued as HD 198716 · HIP 103127

4,090 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
95.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
400 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
95.85×
the Sun's light output
-0.10
absolute magnitude
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HR 7987K-type
Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction
StarTheta² Mic42 ly
StarAlpha Mic47 ly
StarZeta Ind48 ly
StarGamma Micstar
StarEpsilon Micstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Microscopium
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.