K-type star · orange

HR 8996

728 lybrightness mag 5.73K3II

Also catalogued as HD 222820 · HIP 117088

3,962 K

temperature

5.73

apparent magnitude

222× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

728 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

222×

the Sun's light output

-1.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8996K-type

Sky regionTucanathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 215562 →78 ly apart
HR 160 →79 ly apart
HR 257 →100 ly apart
HR 8855 →100 ly apart
HR 8889 →140 ly apart
HR 8286 →170 ly apart

Bright stars in Tucana

Lang-Exster →mag 2.9
Gam Tuc →mag 4.0
Zet Tuc →mag 4.2
Kap Tuc →mag 4.3
Bet1Tuc →mag 4.4
Eps Tuc →mag 4.5
Del Tuc →mag 4.5
Bet2Tuc →mag 4.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.