K-type star · orange dwarf

HR 8857

HR 8857 is an orange dwarf in the constellation Andromeda 253 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,565 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 253 years ago.

253 lybrightness mag 6.44K0IV

Also catalogued as HD 219668 · HIP 114981

4,565 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
13.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
253 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
13.89×
the Sun's light output
1.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 8857K-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.