K-type star · orange

HR 8995

HR 8995 is an orange in the constellation Octans 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,498 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 485 years ago.

485 lybrightness mag 5.74K1III

Also catalogued as HD 222806 · HIP 117125

4,498 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
97.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
97.27×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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HR 8995K-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarHR 884922 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.