K-type star · orange

HR 8050

HR 8050 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 954 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,879 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 236× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 954 years ago.

954 lybrightness mag 6.25K0III

Also catalogued as HD 200245 · HIP 103902

4,879 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
236× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
954 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
236×
the Sun's light output
-1.08
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Microscopium

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.