K-type star · orange

HR 8748

HR 8748 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 356 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,921 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 137× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 356 years ago.

356 lybrightness mag 4.70K4III

Also catalogued as HD 217382 · HIP 113116

3,921 K
temperature
4.70
apparent magnitude
137× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
356 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
137×
the Sun's light output
-0.49
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.