K-type star · orange

HR 8304

HR 8304 is an orange in the constellation Cygnus 1,016 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,760 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 307× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,016 years ago.

1,016 lybrightness mag 6.10G8II

Also catalogued as HD 206731 · HIP 107186

4,760 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
307× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,016 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
307×
the Sun's light output
-1.37
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.