K-type star · orange

HD 88862

655 lybrightness mag 6.48K2III

Also catalogued as HIP 50069

3,870 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
89.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
655 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
89.87×
the Sun's light output
-0.03
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.