K-type star · orange

HR 8835

HR 8835 is an orange in the constellation Grus 250 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,389 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 250 years ago.

250 lybrightness mag 5.77K2III

Also catalogued as HD 219263 · HIP 114775

4,389 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
25.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
250 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
25.12×
the Sun's light output
1.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 8835K-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.