K-type star · orange

HR 8412

HR 8412 is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 929 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,470 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 202× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 929 years ago.

929 lybrightness mag 6.36G5Ia

Also catalogued as HD 209693 · HIP 108969

4,470 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
202× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
929 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
202×
the Sun's light output
-0.91
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pegasus

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.