B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8083

HR 8083 is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 391 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,584 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 391 years ago.

391 lybrightness mag 6.18B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 201057 · HIP 104297

10,584 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
42.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
391 years
at light speed from Earth
1.83×
as hot as the Sun
42.23×
the Sun's light output
0.79
absolute magnitude
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HR 8083B-type
Sky regionCapricornusthis direction
StarHR 810228 ly
StarHR 812231 ly
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Bright stars in Capricornus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Capricornus

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.