K-type star · orange dwarf

Bosona

Bosona is an orange dwarf in the constellation Aquarius 632 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,721 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 8.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 632 years ago.

632 lybrightness mag 8.34K0

Also catalogued as HD 206610 · HIP 107251

4,721 K
temperature
8.34
apparent magnitude
15.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
632 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
15.09×
the Sun's light output
1.90
absolute magnitude
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Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 8.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.