K-type star · orange

HR 8846

HR 8846 is an orange in the constellation Grus 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,619 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.

291 lybrightness mag 5.92K1III

Also catalogued as HD 219507 · HIP 114921

4,619 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
29.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
29.70×
the Sun's light output
1.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 8846K-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.