K-type star · orange

HR 8129

679 lybrightness mag 6.42K3III

Also catalogued as HD 202418 · HIP 106320

3,942 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

102× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

679 years

at light speed from Earth

0.68×

as hot as the Sun

102×

the Sun's light output

-0.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8129K-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8176 →39 ly apart
HD 165338 →53 ly apart
HR 7812 →61 ly apart
HR 6139 →78 ly apart
HR 7494 →83 ly apart
HR 8810 →87 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.