K-type star · orange

HR 8668

HR 8668 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 357 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,420 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 357 years ago.

357 lybrightness mag 6.28K1III

Also catalogued as HD 215669 · HIP 112501

4,420 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
32.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
357 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
32.15×
the Sun's light output
1.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 8668K-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.