K-type star · orange

HR 8716

HR 8716 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 272 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,048 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 272 years ago.

272 lybrightness mag 5.72K0III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 216718 · HIP 113184

5,048 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
31.22× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
272 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
31.22×
the Sun's light output
1.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 8716K-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.