K-type star · orange

The Oct

217 lybrightness mag 4.78K2III

Also catalogued as HR 9084 · HD 224889 · HIP 122

4,205 K

temperature

4.78

apparent magnitude

47.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

217 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

47.29×

the Sun's light output

0.66

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The OctK-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Lam Hyi →14 ly apart
HR 8786 →27 ly apart
Tau2Hyi →27 ly apart
HR 8380 →28 ly apart
HR 8234 →29 ly apart
Lam2Tuc →33 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3
Gam3Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.