K-type star · orange
HR 8484
HR 8484 is an orange in the constellation Grus 624 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,772 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 116× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 624 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 211053 · HIP 109902
4,772 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
116× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
624 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
116×
the Sun's light output
-0.31
absolute magnitude
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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.