F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8635

HR 8635 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Grus 77.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,031 K, and it shines at 1.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 77 years ago.

77.1 lybrightness mag 5.99G0

Also catalogued as HD 214953 · HIP 112117 · Gliese Gl 871A

6,031 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
1.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
77 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
1.96×
the Sun's light output
4.12
absolute magnitude
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HR 8635F-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarHR 847711 ly
StarGamma Tuc16 ly
StarHR 853117 ly
StarAlnairstar
StarTiakistar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.