M-type star · red

HR 8388

HR 8388 is a red in the constellation Cepheus 927 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,594 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 290× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 927 years ago.

927 lybrightness mag 5.96M3III

Also catalogued as HD 209112 · HIP 108505

3,594 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
290× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
927 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
290×
the Sun's light output
-1.31
absolute magnitude
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HR 8388M-type
Sky regionCepheusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.