8_Persei
8 Persei
Star in the constellation Perseus
8 Persei is a single[8] star in the northern constellation of Perseus,[7] located 416 light years away from the Sun.[1] It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.757.[2] There is an estimated 52% chance that the star may be a member of the Hyades–Pleiades stream of co-moving stars.[9]
With an age of over two billion years,[2] this is an aging red giant of spectral type K3 III,[3] a star that has used up its core hydrogen and is expanding. It has 1.83[2] times the mass of the Sun and has reached nearly 16[5] times the Sun's size. The star is radiating 108[1] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,560 K.[1]