K-type star · orange

HR 8847

HR 8847 is an orange in the constellation Grus 519 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,581 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 519 years ago.

519 lybrightness mag 6.49K0III

Also catalogued as HD 219531 · HIP 114937

4,581 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
55.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
519 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
55.82×
the Sun's light output
0.48
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.