B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8064

HR 8064 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,305 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,993 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 350× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,305 years ago.

1,305 lybrightness mag 6.50B3Vn

Also catalogued as HD 200595 · HIP 103871

11,993 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
350× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,305 years
at light speed from Earth
2.08×
as hot as the Sun
350×
the Sun's light output
-1.51
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.