A-type star · white star

HR 906

HR 906 is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,580 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.

203 lybrightness mag 5.92A7III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 18778 · HIP 14844

8,580 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
14.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
14.44×
the Sun's light output
1.95
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.