K-type star · orange

HR 8076

HR 8076 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 328 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,506 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.32× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 328 years ago.

328 lybrightness mag 5.20K2III

Also catalogued as HD 200763 · HIP 104174

4,506 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
73.32× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
328 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
73.32×
the Sun's light output
0.19
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.