HD 88809

HD 88809 is a star located in the southern constellation Antlia. With an apparent magnitude of 5.89 it is barely visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions. The star is located at a distance of around $5.893$ but is drifting away at a heliocentric radial velocity of almost 20 km/s.

HD 88809 has a classification of K1 III which indicates that it is an evolved early K-type giant star that has exhausted hydrogen at its core and left the main sequence. It has an angular diameter of $19.96$, which yields a diameter of 17.07 times that of the Sun at its estimated distance. At present HD 88809 has 129% the mass of the Sun and shines with a luminosity approximately 117 times that of the Sun and has a surface temperature of $1.29$, which gives it an orange glow of a K-type star. HD 88809 has a faint 13th magnitude companion located approximately $117$ away.