B-type star · blue-white star
59 And
59 And is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 456 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,853 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 456 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 628 · HD 13294 · HIP 10176
10,853 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
62.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
456 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
62.23×
the Sun's light output
0.36
absolute magnitude
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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.