K-type star · orange

HR 7987

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

Nearest stars

The2Mic →42 ly apart
Alp Mic →47 ly apart
Zet Ind →48 ly apart
HR 8108 →49 ly apart
HR 7765 →60 ly apart
HR 8241 →62 ly apart

Bright stars in Microscopium

Gam Mic →mag 4.7
Eps Mic →mag 4.7
The1Mic →mag 4.8
Alp Mic →mag 4.9
Iot Mic →mag 5.1
Nu Mic →mag 5.1
Zet Mic →mag 5.3
Eta Mic →mag 5.5

Can you see it tonight?

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.