A-type star · white star

47 And

47 And is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,618 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 208 years ago.

208 lybrightness mag 5.60A1m

Also catalogued as HR 395 · HD 8374 · HIP 6514

7,618 K
temperature
5.60
apparent magnitude
20.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
208 years
at light speed from Earth
1.32×
as hot as the Sun
20.44×
the Sun's light output
1.57
absolute magnitude
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47 AndA-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarMirach16 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.