K-type star · orange
8 Per
8 Per is an orange in the constellation Perseus 411 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,358 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 411 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 661 · HD 13982 · HIP 10718
4,358 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
69.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
411 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
69.25×
the Sun's light output
0.25
absolute magnitude
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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.