K-type star · orange

HR 8164

HR 8164 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 1,930 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,485 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,907× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,930 years ago.

1,930 lybrightness mag 5.51B3Vv comp

Also catalogued as HD 203338 · HIP 105259

4,485 K

temperature

5.51

apparent magnitude

1,907× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3Vv comp

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,930 years

at light speed from Earth

0.78×

as hot as the Sun

1,907×

the Sun's light output

-3.35

absolute magnitude

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HR 8164K-type

Sky regionCepheusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.