K-type star · orange

HR 8555

HR 8555 is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 867 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,883 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 245× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 867 years ago.

867 lybrightness mag 6.00K2

Also catalogued as HD 212988 · HIP 110873

3,883 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
245× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
867 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
245×
the Sun's light output
-1.12
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.