B-type star · blue-white star

13 And

13 And is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 300 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 300 years ago.

300 lybrightness mag 5.75B9III

Also catalogued as HR 8913 · HD 220885 · HIP 115755

10,213 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
36.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
300 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
36.95×
the Sun's light output
0.93
absolute magnitude
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13 AndB-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarHR 897330 ly
Star11 And33 ly
StarHR 871235 ly
StarAlpheratzstar
StarMirachstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.