K-type star · orange

HR 8142

HR 8142 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 359 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,826 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 359 years ago.

359 lybrightness mag 6.40K0IV

Also catalogued as HD 202773 · HIP 105228

4,826 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
29.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
359 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
29.11×
the Sun's light output
1.19
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.