K-type star · orange

HR 8957

528 lybrightness mag 5.99K0II/III

Also catalogued as HD 222060 · HIP 116653

4,978 K

temperature

5.99

apparent magnitude

91.62× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

528 years

at light speed from Earth

0.86×

as hot as the Sun

91.62×

the Sun's light output

-0.06

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8957K-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8995 →46 ly apart
HR 87 →49 ly apart
Xi Oct →50 ly apart
HR 8849 →67 ly apart
HR 9108 →71 ly apart
HR 8794 →82 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.