K-type star · orange

HR 207

HR 207 is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia 3,048 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,556 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,076× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 3,048 years ago.

3,048 lybrightness mag 6.41G0Ib

Also catalogued as HD 4362 · HIP 3649

4,556 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
2,076× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
3,048 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
2,076×
the Sun's light output
-3.44
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cassiopeia

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.