K-type star · orange

HR 8657

HR 8657 is an orange in the constellation Grus 788 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,118 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 315× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 788 years ago.

788 lybrightness mag 5.52K3III

Also catalogued as HD 215405 · HIP 112381

4,118 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
315× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
788 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
315×
the Sun's light output
-1.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.