M-type star · red

HR 8062

HR 8062 is a red in the constellation Cygnus 977 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,532 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 263× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 977 years ago.

977 lybrightness mag 6.18M3Ib-II:

Also catalogued as HD 200527 · HIP 103828

3,532 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
263× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3Ib-II:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
977 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
263×
the Sun's light output
-1.20
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.