K-type star · orange

HR 8223

HR 8223 is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 666 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,000 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 167× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 666 years ago.

666 lybrightness mag 5.84M4III

Also catalogued as HD 204585 · HIP 106062

4,000 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
167× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
666 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
167×
the Sun's light output
-0.71
absolute magnitude
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HR 8223K-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
StarHR 825837 ly
Star16 Peg82 ly
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Bright stars in Pegasus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.