G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 8
HR 8 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Andromeda 44.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,430 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 45 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 166 · HIP 544 · Gliese Gl 5
5,430 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
0.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
45 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
0.61×
the Sun's light output
5.39
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.