K-type star · orange

HR 8990

440 lybrightness mag 6.40K2III

Also catalogued as HD 222682 · HIP 116962

4,213 K

temperature

6.40

apparent magnitude

43.69× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

440 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

43.69×

the Sun's light output

0.75

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8990K-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 9079 →24 ly apart
HD 1142 →32 ly apart
HR 8779 →58 ly apart
HR 9019 →59 ly apart
HR 9000 →68 ly apart
HR 8621 →74 ly apart

Bright stars in Cassiopeia

Cih →mag 2.1
Schedar →mag 2.2
Caph →mag 2.3
Ruchbah →mag 2.7
Segin →mag 3.4
Achird →mag 3.5
Fulu →mag 3.7
50 Cas →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cassiopeia

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.