K-type star · orange

HR 8251

HR 8251 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,493 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 418 years ago.

418 lybrightness mag 5.79G9III:

Also catalogued as HD 205423 · HIP 106592

4,493 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
69.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
418 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
69.18×
the Sun's light output
0.25
absolute magnitude
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HR 8251K-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.