K-type star · orange dwarf

Pincoya

Pincoya is an orange dwarf in the constellation Sagittarius 134 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,957 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 9.6 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 134 years ago.

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134 lybrightness mag 9.62K2

Also catalogued as HD 164604 · HIP 88414

3,957 K
temperature
9.62
apparent magnitude
0.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
134 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
0.21×
the Sun's light output
6.55
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 9.6To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sagittarius

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.