K-type star · orange
HR 8290
HR 8290 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 717 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,480 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 145× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 717 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 206509 · HIP 107041
4,480 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
145× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
717 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
145×
the Sun's light output
-0.55
absolute magnitude
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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.