K-type star · orange

HR 8096

HR 8096 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 338 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 338 years ago.

338 lybrightness mag 6.27K0III

Also catalogued as HD 201567 · HIP 104557

4,387 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
29.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
338 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
29.03×
the Sun's light output
1.19
absolute magnitude
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HR 8096K-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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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.