K-type star · orange

HR 8685

HR 8685 is an orange in the constellation Grus 773 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,880 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 329× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 773 years ago.

773 lybrightness mag 5.43K3III

Also catalogued as HD 216149 · HIP 112832

3,880 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
329× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
773 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
329×
the Sun's light output
-1.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 8685K-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.