K-type star · orange

HR 8909

HR 8909 is an orange in the constellation Tucana 314 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,784 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 314 years ago.

314 lybrightness mag 5.63G8III

Also catalogued as HD 220790 · HIP 115769

4,784 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
45.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
314 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
45.25×
the Sun's light output
0.71
absolute magnitude
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HR 8909K-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarHR 890125 ly
StarNu Tuc47 ly
StarPi Phe47 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.