K-type star · orange

HR 8068

HR 8068 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 395 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,828 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 395 years ago.

395 lybrightness mag 6.34G5

Also catalogued as HD 200663 · HIP 104048

4,828 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
37.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
395 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
37.15×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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HR 8068K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.