K-type star · orange
HR 8299
HR 8299 is an orange in the constellation Grus 867 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,453 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 189× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 867 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 206642 · HIP 107344
4,453 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
189× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
867 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
189×
the Sun's light output
-0.84
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.