K-type star · orange

HR 8879

HR 8879 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 369 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,539 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 369 years ago.

369 lybrightness mag 6.17K0III

Also catalogued as HD 220035 · HIP 115257

4,539 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
37.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
369 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
37.95×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.