K-type star · orange

HR 8049

HR 8049 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 615 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,932 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 189× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 615 years ago.

615 lybrightness mag 5.54K4III

Also catalogued as HD 200205 · HIP 103598

3,932 K
temperature
5.54
apparent magnitude
189× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
615 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
189×
the Sun's light output
-0.84
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.