B-type star · blue-white star
Alshat
Alshat is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 253 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,752 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 253 years ago.
Also catalogued as Nu Cap · HR 7773 · HD 193432 · HIP 100310
10,752 K
temperature
4.77
apparent magnitude
64.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
253 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
64.86×
the Sun's light output
0.32
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.