K-type star · orange

HR 8811

HR 8811 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 1,059 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,550 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 301× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,059 years ago.

1,059 lybrightness mag 6.21K0

Also catalogued as HD 218560 · HIP 114227

4,550 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
301× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,059 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
301×
the Sun's light output
-1.35
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.