K-type star · orange

HR 2008

HR 2008 is an orange in the constellation Pictor 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,649 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 5.31K0/K1II

Also catalogued as HD 38871 · HIP 27243

4,649 K
temperature
5.31
apparent magnitude
136× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
136×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
absolute magnitude
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HR 2008K-type
Sky regionPictorthis direction
StarEta Col36 ly
StarHR 181337 ly
StarHR 192740 ly
StarAlpha Picstar
StarGamma Picstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pictor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pictor

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.