K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 8432

HR 8432 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Octans 288 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,740 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 288 years ago.

288 lybrightness mag 6.13K0III

Also catalogued as HD 210056 · HIP 109584

4,740 K
temperature
6.13
apparent magnitude
23.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
288 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
23.92×
the Sun's light output
1.40
absolute magnitude
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HR 8432K-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarEpsilon Oct22 ly
StarHR 837039 ly
StarGamma¹ Oct42 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.