K-type star · orange

HR 8996

HR 8996 is an orange in the constellation Tucana 728 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,962 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 222× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 728 years ago.

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
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HR 8996K-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarHD 21556278 ly
StarHR 16079 ly
StarHR 257100 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
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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.