M-type star · red

HR 8297

HR 8297 is a red in the constellation Cygnus 2,038 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 2,725 K, about 0.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,379× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,038 years ago.

2,038 lybrightness mag 5.98C6.3

Also catalogued as HD 206570 · HIP 107129

2,725 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
1,379× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
C6.3
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,038 years
at light speed from Earth
0.47×
as hot as the Sun
1,379×
the Sun's light output
-3.00
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.