K-type star · orange

HR 7999

400 lybrightness mag 6.36K2

Also catalogued as HD 198976 · HIP 103079

4,548 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

37.46× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

400 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

37.46×

the Sun's light output

0.92

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7999K-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8082 →30 ly apart
HR 8094 →32 ly apart
HR 7904 →50 ly apart
HR 8182 →55 ly apart
HR 7760 →57 ly apart
HR 7956 →57 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.