Distance, Age, and Mass
HD 217107 is fairly close to the Sun: the Hipparcos astrometric satellite measured its parallax as 50.71 Milliarcseconds, which corresponds to a distance of 65 light years. Its apparent magnitude is 6.17, making it just barely visible to the naked eye under favourable conditions.
Spectroscopic observations show that its spectral type is G7 or G8, which means its temperature is about 5,000 K. Its mass is thought to be roughly the same as the Sun's, although its estimated age of 7.7 billion years is rather older than the Sun's 4.6 billion years, and it is thought to be beginning to evolve away from the main sequence, having consumed almost all the hydrogen in its core in nuclear fusion reactions.
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