K-type star · orange

HR 8601

HR 8601 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 358 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,572 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 358 years ago.

358 lybrightness mag 5.82K2III

Also catalogued as HD 214122 · HIP 111600

4,572 K
temperature
5.82
apparent magnitude
49.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
358 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
49.20×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 8601K-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.