K-type star · orange

HR 8702

HR 8702 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 313 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,200 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 313 years ago.

313 lybrightness mag 4.77K3III

Also catalogued as HD 216446 · HIP 112519

4,200 K
temperature
4.77
apparent magnitude
99.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
313 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
99.36×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.