K-type star · orange

HR 8193

HR 8193 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 919 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,836 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 180× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 919 years ago.

919 lybrightness mag 6.46K5

Also catalogued as HD 203857 · HIP 105637

3,836 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
180× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
919 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
180×
the Sun's light output
-0.79
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.