B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8065
HR 8065 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cepheus 921 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,912 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 324× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 921 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 200614 · HIP 103810
10,912 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
324× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
921 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
324×
the Sun's light output
-1.43
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.