K-type star · orange

HR 8743

HR 8743 is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 687 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,207 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 210× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 687 years ago.

687 lybrightness mag 5.66K0IICNIII

Also catalogued as HD 217303 · HIP 113562

4,207 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
210× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IICNIII
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
687 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
210×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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HR 8743K-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.