K-type star · orange
HD 8896
HD 8896 is an orange in the constellation Cetus 419 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 419 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 6789
4,468 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
38.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
419 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
38.44×
the Sun's light output
0.89
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.