K-type star · orange
HR 8492
HR 8492 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 574 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,493 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 574 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 211291 · HIP 109990
4,493 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
94.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
574 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
94.45×
the Sun's light output
-0.09
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.