K-type star · orange
HR 8990
HR 8990 is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia 440 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,213 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 440 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 222682 · HIP 116962
4,213 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
43.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
440 years
at light speed from Earth
0.73×
as hot as the Sun
43.69×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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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.