K-type star · orange
HR 8182
HR 8182 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,561 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 366 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 203630 · HIP 105558
4,561 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
40.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
40.96×
the Sun's light output
0.82
absolute magnitude
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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.