G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Sika

189 lybrightness mag 7.84G1V

Also catalogued as HD 181720 · HIP 95262

5,971 K
temperature
7.84
apparent magnitude
2.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
189 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
2.15×
the Sun's light output
4.02
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 7.8To 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.