G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

HR 8883

HR 8883 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Sculptor 330 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,230 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 330 years ago.

330 lybrightness mag 5.65G5IV

Also catalogued as HD 220096 · HIP 115312

5,230 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
49.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
330 years
at light speed from Earth
0.91×
as hot as the Sun
49.11×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
HR 8883G-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 874035 ly
StarHR 902639 ly
Star21 PsA41 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.