K-type star · orange

HR 8871

HR 8871 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 593 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,107 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 593 years ago.

593 lybrightness mag 6.35K2III

Also catalogued as HD 219912 · HIP 115178

4,107 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
83.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
593 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
83.02×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 8871K-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 891439 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sculptor

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.