A-type star · white star
15 And
15 And is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,066 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8947 · HD 221756 · HIP 116354
9,066 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
33.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
1.57×
as hot as the Sun
33.85×
the Sun's light output
1.03
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.