K-type star · orange
HR 8917
HR 8917 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 409 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,991 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 409 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 220957 · HIP 115839
4,991 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
38.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
409 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
38.83×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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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.