K-type star · orange

Tau Oct

486 lybrightness mag 5.50K2III

Also catalogued as HR 8862 · HD 219765 · HIP 115836

4,161 K

temperature

5.50

apparent magnitude

122× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

486 years

at light speed from Earth

0.72×

as hot as the Sun

122×

the Sun's light output

-0.37

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau OctK-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1271 →39 ly apart
Xi Oct →64 ly apart
HR 8849 →70 ly apart
HR 8995 →74 ly apart
HR 7785 →74 ly apart
HD 172226 →86 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.