K-type star · orange

HR 8577

948 lybrightness mag 6.15K1III

Also catalogued as HD 213402 · HIP 111504

4,003 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

255× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

948 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

255×

the Sun's light output

-1.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8577K-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 47 →120 ly apart
Omi Pav →170 ly apart
HR 8810 →210 ly apart
HR 6429 →210 ly apart
HR 6646 →210 ly apart
HR 8908 →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.