K-type star · orange

HR 8200

HR 8200 is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 264 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,338 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 264 years ago.

264 lybrightness mag 5.64K2III

Also catalogued as HD 203949 · HIP 105854

4,338 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
31.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
264 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
31.56×
the Sun's light output
1.10
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.