K-type star · orange

HR 8719

HR 8719 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 1,320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,020 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 523× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,320 years ago.

1,320 lybrightness mag 6.09K3III

Also catalogued as HD 216761 · HIP 113234

4,020 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
523× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,320 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
523×
the Sun's light output
-1.95
absolute magnitude
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HR 8719K-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.