K-type star · orange

HR 8479

HR 8479 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,340 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

366 lybrightness mag 5.37K1III

Also catalogued as HD 210939 · HIP 109592

4,340 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
77.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
366 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
77.84×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.