K-type star · orange
HR 8621
HR 8621 is an orange in the constellation Lacerta 451 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,739 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 451 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 214665 · HIP 111795
3,739 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
451 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
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.