K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 8784

HR 8784 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Pegasus 118 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,034 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 118 years ago.

118 lybrightness mag 6.43G8IV

Also catalogued as HD 218101 · HIP 113994

5,034 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
3.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
118 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
3.06×
the Sun's light output
3.63
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pegasus

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.