K-type star · orange

HR 2792

HR 2792 is an orange in the constellation Auriga 625 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,276 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 88.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 625 years ago.

625 lybrightness mag 6.40K0

Also catalogued as HD 57263 · HIP 35725

4,276 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
88.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
625 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
88.06×
the Sun's light output
-0.01
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.