M-type star · red

HR 8436

HR 8436 is a red in the constellation Pegasus 1,000 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,642 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 245× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,000 years ago.

1,000 lybrightness mag 6.31M1

Also catalogued as HD 210090 · HIP 109212

3,642 K
temperature
6.31
apparent magnitude
245× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,000 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
245×
the Sun's light output
-1.12
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.