A-type star · white star
Beta Equ
Beta Equ is a white star in the constellation Equuleus 331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,391 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 331 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8178 · HD 203562 · HIP 105570
9,391 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
77.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
331 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
77.34×
the Sun's light output
0.13
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.