K-type star · orange

HR 8476

HR 8476 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,466 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 385 years ago.

385 lybrightness mag 6.29K0III

Also catalogued as HD 210905 · HIP 109585

4,466 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
36.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
36.91×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.