B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8054

HR 8054 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 1,631 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,473 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 547× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,631 years ago.

1,631 lybrightness mag 6.50B6V

Also catalogued as HD 200340 · HIP 103889

11,473 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
547× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,631 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
547×
the Sun's light output
-2.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 8054B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.