K-type star · orange

HR 8686

HR 8686 is an orange in the constellation Tucana 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,447 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 6.47K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HD 216169 · HIP 112895

4,447 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
46.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
46.43×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 8686K-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Tucana

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.