K-type star · orange

HR 8920

HR 8920 is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 526 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,354 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 526 years ago.

526 lybrightness mag 6.43K2III

Also catalogued as HD 221051 · HIP 115907

4,354 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
60.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
526 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
60.70×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Phoenix

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.