K-type star · orange

HR 8623

HR 8623 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 694 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,127 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 175× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 694 years ago.

694 lybrightness mag 5.88K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 214690 · HIP 111934

4,127 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
175× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
694 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
175×
the Sun's light output
-0.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.