K-type star · orange

HR 8987

HR 8987 is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 270 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,044 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 270 years ago.

270 lybrightness mag 5.27K3III

Also catalogued as HD 222643 · HIP 116957

4,044 K
temperature
5.27
apparent magnitude
46.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
270 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
46.56×
the Sun's light output
0.68
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.