K-type star · orange
HR 8849
HR 8849 is an orange in the constellation Octans 465 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,962 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 465 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 219572 · HIP 115129
4,962 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
51.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
465 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
51.57×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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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.