K-type star · orange dwarf

Lacaille 8760

12.9 lybrightness mag 6.69M1/M2V

Also catalogued as HD 202560 · HIP 105090 · Gliese Gl 825

3,955 K

temperature

6.69

apparent magnitude

0.03× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M1/M2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

13 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

0.03×

the Sun's light output

8.71

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Lacaille 8760K-type

Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction

StarEps Ind4.3 ly

StarLacaille 93524.9 ly

StarEZ Aqr6.4 ly

StarGam Micstar

StarEps Micstar

Nearest stars

Eps Ind →4.3 ly apart
Lacaille 9352 →4.9 ly apart
EZ Aqr →6.4 ly apart
Ross 154 →7.4 ly apart
HR 7703 →7.7 ly apart
Del Pav →11 ly apart

Bright stars in Microscopium

Gam Mic →mag 4.7
Eps Mic →mag 4.7
The1Mic →mag 4.8
Alp Mic →mag 4.9
Iot Mic →mag 5.1
Nu Mic →mag 5.1
Zet Mic →mag 5.3
Eta Mic →mag 5.5

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.7To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Microscopium

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.