B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8040

1,080 lybrightness mag 5.59B5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 199955 · HIP 103530

12,370 K

temperature

5.59

apparent magnitude

555× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,080 years

at light speed from Earth

2.14×

as hot as the Sun

555×

the Sun's light output

-2.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8040B-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

63 Cyg →75 ly apart
HR 8003 →120 ly apart
HR 7944 →120 ly apart
HR 7966 →120 ly apart
32 Cyg →140 ly apart
HR 8304 →150 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cygnus

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.