K-type star · orange

HR 8026

HR 8026 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 766 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,617 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 206× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 766 years ago.

766 lybrightness mag 5.92G8II-III

Also catalogued as HD 199612 · HIP 103360

4,617 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
206× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
766 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
206×
the Sun's light output
-0.93
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.