A-type star · white star

HR 892

HR 892 is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 361 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,954 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 361 years ago.

361 lybrightness mag 5.22A2IV

Also catalogued as HD 18543 · HIP 13874

9,954 K

temperature

5.22

apparent magnitude

87.02× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

361 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

87.02×

the Sun's light output

0.00

absolute magnitude

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HR 892A-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.