K-type star · orange

HR 998

HR 998 is an orange in the constellation Horologium 512 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,255 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 98.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 512 years ago.

512 lybrightness mag 5.84K2III

Also catalogued as HD 20640 · HIP 15305

4,255 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
98.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
512 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
98.99×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 998K-type
Sky regionHorologiumthis direction
StarHR 102136 ly
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StarAlpha Horstar
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Bright stars in Horologium
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Horologium

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.