K-type star · orange

HR 8005

HR 8005 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 601 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,761 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 192× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 601 years ago.

601 lybrightness mag 5.47K5III

Also catalogued as HD 199101 · HIP 103145

3,761 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
192× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
601 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
192×
the Sun's light output
-0.86
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cygnus

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.