K-type star · orange

HR 8925

HR 8925 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 903 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,848 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 223× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 903 years ago.

903 lybrightness mag 6.19K5III

Also catalogued as HD 221246 · HIP 115996

3,848 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
223× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
903 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
223×
the Sun's light output
-1.02
absolute magnitude
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HR 8925K-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarHR 8705100 ly
StarHR 8731120 ly
StarPsi And120 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.