B-type star · blue-white star
62 And
62 And is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 246 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 246 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 670 · HD 14212 · HIP 10819
10,051 K
temperature
5.31
apparent magnitude
37.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
246 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
37.19×
the Sun's light output
0.92
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.