G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 8323
HR 8323 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Grus 52.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,964 K, and it shines at 1.32× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 52 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 207129 · HIP 107649 · Gliese Gl 838
5,964 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
1.32× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
52 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
1.32×
the Sun's light output
4.55
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.