K-type star · orange

HR 8972

HR 8972 is an orange in the constellation Cepheus 327 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,026 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 327 years ago.

327 lybrightness mag 5.98G8III

Also catalogued as HD 222387 · HIP 116728

5,026 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
35.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
327 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
35.61×
the Sun's light output
0.97
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.