K-type star · orange
HR 8506
HR 8506 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 617 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,866 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 138× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 617 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 211554 · HIP 109972
4,866 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
138× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
617 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
138×
the Sun's light output
-0.50
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.