B-type star · blue-white star

HR 769

HR 769 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 677 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,502 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 114× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 677 years ago.

677 lybrightness mag 6.29B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 16350 · HIP 12305

10,502 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
114× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
677 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
114×
the Sun's light output
-0.29
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.