K-type star · orange

HR 8794

HR 8794 is an orange in the constellation Indus 601 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,920 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 601 years ago.

601 lybrightness mag 6.18K3III

Also catalogued as HD 218288 · HIP 114268

3,920 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
99.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
601 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
99.63×
the Sun's light output
-0.15
absolute magnitude
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HR 8794K-type
Sky regionIndusthis direction
StarHR 5856 ly
StarHR 910856 ly
StarHR 8768 ly
StarAlpha Indstar
StarBeta Indstar
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Bright stars in Indus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Indus

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.