K-type star · orange
HR 8594
HR 8594 is an orange in the constellation Lacerta 344 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,826 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 344 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 213930 · HIP 111362
4,826 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
50.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
344 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
50.03×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
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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.