K-type star · orange

HR 8088

HR 8088 is an orange in the constellation Delphinus 482 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,724 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 482 years ago.

482 lybrightness mag 6.27K2IV

Also catalogued as HD 201196 · HIP 104281

4,724 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

58.99× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

482 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

58.99×

the Sun's light output

0.42

absolute magnitude

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HR 8088K-type

Sky regionDelphinusthis direction

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Bright stars in Delphinus

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Delphinus

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.