G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
HR 8531
HR 8531 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Tucana 67.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,724 K, and it shines at 2.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 67 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 212330 · HIP 110649 · Gliese Gl 857
5,724 K
temperature
5.31
apparent magnitude
2.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
67 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
2.77×
the Sun's light output
3.75
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.