K-type star · orange

HR 8168

HR 8168 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 951 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,747 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 317× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 951 years ago.

951 lybrightness mag 5.92K5III

Also catalogued as HD 203399 · HIP 104968

3,747 K

temperature

5.92

apparent magnitude

317× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

951 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

317×

the Sun's light output

-1.40

absolute magnitude

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HR 8168K-type

Sky regionCepheusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cepheus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.