F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8056

HR 8056 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 231 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,486 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.94× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 231 years ago.

231 lybrightness mag 6.24F5V

Also catalogued as HD 200375 · HIP 103892

6,486 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
13.94× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
231 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
13.94×
the Sun's light output
1.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 8056F-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.