G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 8696
HR 8696 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cepheus 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,357 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 237 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 216380 · HIP 112864
5,357 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
26.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2IV+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
237 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
26.25×
the Sun's light output
1.30
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.