F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8380

HR 8380 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Octans 204 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,886 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 204 years ago.

204 lybrightness mag 5.94F3III

Also catalogued as HD 208741 · HIP 108849

6,886 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
14.35× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
204 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
14.35×
the Sun's light output
1.96
absolute magnitude
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HR 8380F-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarHR 823414 ly
StarTheta Oct28 ly
StarLambda Hyi38 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.