K-type star · orange

HR 8869

HR 8869 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 1,394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,743 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 657× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,394 years ago.

1,394 lybrightness mag 5.96K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HD 219879 · HIP 115144

3,743 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
657× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,394 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
657×
the Sun's light output
-2.19
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.