K-type star · orange

HR 8275

HR 8275 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,764 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 538 years ago.

538 lybrightness mag 6.16K1III

Also catalogued as HD 206040 · HIP 106771

4,764 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
81.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
538 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
81.51×
the Sun's light output
0.07
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cygnus

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.