M-type star · red

HR 8044

HR 8044 is a red in the constellation Delphinus 524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,666 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 524 years ago.

524 lybrightness mag 5.69M3III

Also catalogued as HD 200044 · HIP 103675

3,666 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
524 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 8044M-type
Sky regionDelphinusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Delphinus

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.