K-type star · orange

HR 8620

HR 8620 is an orange in the constellation Tucana 852 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,870 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 241× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 852 years ago.

852 lybrightness mag 5.98K4III

Also catalogued as HD 214632 · HIP 111967

3,870 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
241× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
852 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
241×
the Sun's light output
-1.10
absolute magnitude
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HR 8620K-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarHR 888990 ly
StarHR 8659140 ly
StarHD 215562160 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.