M-type star · red

HR 8172

775 lybrightness mag 5.63M0III

Also catalogued as HD 203475 · HIP 105576

3,593 K

temperature

5.63

apparent magnitude

275× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

775 years

at light speed from Earth

0.62×

as hot as the Sun

275×

the Sun's light output

-1.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8172M-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 203607 →100 ly apart
HR 8340 →130 ly apart
18Ome Cap →130 ly apart
28Phi Cap →140 ly apart
12Eta PsA →150 ly apart
17 Aqr →180 ly apart

Bright stars in Capricornus

Deneb Algedi →mag 2.9
Dabih →mag 3.0
Algedi →mag 3.6
Nashira →mag 3.7
34Zet Cap →mag 3.8
23The Cap →mag 4.1
18Ome Cap →mag 4.1
16Psi Cap →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Capricornus

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.