G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 8617
HR 8617 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Lacerta 554 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,370 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 554 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 214558 · HIP 111753
5,370 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
70.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
554 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
70.40×
the Sun's light output
0.23
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.