A-type star · white star
39 And
39 And is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 350 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,478 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 350 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 290 · HD 6116 · HIP 4903
8,478 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
41.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
350 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
41.80×
the Sun's light output
0.80
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.