K-type star · orange

HR 8500

HR 8500 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 369 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,393 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 369 years ago.

369 lybrightness mag 5.80K3III:

Also catalogued as HD 211392 · HIP 110009

4,393 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
53.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
369 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
53.46×
the Sun's light output
0.53
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.