K-type star · orange

HR 8568

HR 8568 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 367 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,487 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 367 years ago.

367 lybrightness mag 6.30K0

Also catalogued as HD 213242 · HIP 110919

4,487 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
33.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
367 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
33.36×
the Sun's light output
1.04
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.