Star in the constellation Vulpecula
8 Vulpeculae is star located about 457[ 1] light years away in the northern constellation of Vulpecula .[ 6] It lies just 7′ from Alpha Vulpeculae and the two form an optical double .[ 7] 8 Vulpeculae is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-orange hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.82. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −29 km/s.[ 2]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III,[ 3] which indicates it has exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core and evolved away from the main sequence . It is 324[ 5] million years old with three[ 4] times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 14[ 1] times the Sun's radius . The star is radiating 100[ 1] times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,915 K.[ 1]
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^ a b Takeda, Yoichi; et al. (August 2008), "Stellar parameters and elemental abundances of late-G giants", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan , 60 (4): 781–802, arXiv :0805.2434 , Bibcode :2008PASJ...60..781T , doi :10.1093/pasj/60.4.781
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^ Mason, Brian D.; et al. (2001). "The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog" . The Astronomical Journal . 122 (6): 3466–3471. Bibcode :2001AJ....122.3466M . doi :10.1086/323920 . ISSN 0004-6256 .
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