B-type star · blue-white star

15 Dra

15 Dra is a blue-white star in the constellation Draco 487 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,809 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 205× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 487 years ago.

487 lybrightness mag 4.94A0III

Also catalogued as HR 6161 · HD 149212 · HIP 80650

10,809 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
205× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
487 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
205×
the Sun's light output
-0.93
absolute magnitude
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15 DraB-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
StarPherkad54 ly
StarHR 619856 ly
StarHR 606960 ly
StarEltaninstar
StarAthebynestar
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Bright stars in Draco
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.