K-type star · orange

HR 8530

HR 8530 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,748 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 5.92G6V

Also catalogued as HD 212320 · HIP 110532

4,748 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
76.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
76.42×
the Sun's light output
0.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 8530K-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
StarHR 845142 ly
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Bright stars in Aquarius
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.