G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 8501

HR 8501 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Grus 45.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,913 K, and it shines at 1.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 45 years ago.

45.0 lybrightness mag 5.36G1V

Also catalogued as HD 211415 · HIP 110109 · Gliese Gl 853A

5,913 K

temperature

5.36

apparent magnitude

1.19× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

45 years

at light speed from Earth

1.02×

as hot as the Sun

1.19×

the Sun's light output

4.66

absolute magnitude

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HR 8501G-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

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Bright stars in Grus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.