K-type star · orange

HR 8875

HR 8875 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 375 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,466 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 375 years ago.

375 lybrightness mag 6.29K1III

Also catalogued as HD 219962 · HIP 115171

4,466 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
35.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
375 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
35.06×
the Sun's light output
0.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 8875K-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.