K-type star · orange

HR 8124

HR 8124 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 704 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,983 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 143× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 704 years ago.

704 lybrightness mag 6.13K3III

Also catalogued as HD 202287 · HIP 104980

3,983 K
temperature
6.13
apparent magnitude
143× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
704 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
143×
the Sun's light output
-0.54
absolute magnitude
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HR 8124K-type
Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.