K-type star · orange

HR 8914

HR 8914 is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 563 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,307 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 563 years ago.

563 lybrightness mag 6.34K2III

Also catalogued as HD 220929 · HIP 115833

4,307 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
75.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
563 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
75.65×
the Sun's light output
0.15
absolute magnitude
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HR 8914K-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
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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.