K-type star · orange

Upsilon Oct

Upsilon Oct is an orange in the constellation Octans 324 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,695 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 324 years ago.

324 lybrightness mag 5.76K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8505 · HD 211539 · HIP 111196

4,695 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
42.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
324 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
42.74×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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Upsilon OctK-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarGamma² Oct31 ly
StarOmega Oct43 ly
StarEpsilon Oct45 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.