K-type star · orange

HR 87

HR 87 is an orange in the constellation Hydrus 570 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,955 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 110× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 570 years ago.

570 lybrightness mag 5.96K3III

Also catalogued as HD 1801 · HIP 1706

3,955 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
110× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
570 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
110×
the Sun's light output
-0.25
absolute magnitude
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HR 87K-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydrus

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.