K-type star · orange
Safina
Safina is an orange in the constellation Aquarius 271 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,305 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 202× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 271 years ago.
Also catalogued as 88 Aqr · HR 8812 · HD 218594 · HIP 114341
4,305 K
temperature
3.68
apparent magnitude
202× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
271 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
202×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
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.