K-type star · orange

HR 8017

HR 8017 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 307 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,276 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 307 years ago.

307 lybrightness mag 6.06K2III

Also catalogued as HD 199442 · HIP 103414

4,276 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
28.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
307 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
28.97×
the Sun's light output
1.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 8017K-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.