A-type star · white star

HR 687

HR 687 is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 153 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,532 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 153 years ago.

153 lybrightness mag 5.81F0III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 14622 · HIP 11090

7,532 K
temperature
5.81
apparent magnitude
9.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
153 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
9.13×
the Sun's light output
2.45
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.