K-type star · orange
HR 8614
HR 8614 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 416 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,663 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 416 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 214462 · HIP 111801
4,663 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
36.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
416 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
36.91×
the Sun's light output
0.93
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.