★ Star HD 196761 | Nearby stars catalogue

Yellow star HD 196761 is located 47.9 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class G7.5IV-V, that has 81 % of solar mass. For now, there are no known exoplanets in this system.

HD 196761

Yellow star (spectral class G7.5IV-V)

Basic characteristic

Mass: 0.81 M Sun

Size: 0.88 R Sun

Temperature: 5457 K | 0.94 T Sun

Age: 5.63 billions years | 1.22 Sun

Apparent magnitude (V): 6.37

(No known exoplanets yet)

Photometry

Absolute stellar magnitude in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared (K band) to ultraviolet (U band).

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

More about HD 196761

      Nearby star HD 196761 can be found in southern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is observable from Northern America, Europe and Asia.  HD 196761 is about 90 % of the size of Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 5457 K (5184 °C), which is about 94 % of Suns temperature.

Other designations of this star
CD−24° 16193, GJ 796, HD 196761, HIP 101997, HR 7898, LTT 8172, SAO 189549, Gaia EDR3 6854626246593473792

External sources

Simbad database (HD 196761)
Astronomical database SIMBAD (the Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data)

Gaia database (Gaia EDR3 6854626246593473792)
Archive from the Gaia mission

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