B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8112

HR 8112 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cepheus 403 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,016 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 403 years ago.

403 lybrightness mag 5.91B8Vn

Also catalogued as HD 201908 · HIP 104105

11,016 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
57.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
403 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
57.44×
the Sun's light output
0.45
absolute magnitude
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HR 8112B-type
Sky regionCepheusthis direction
StarHR 804316 ly
StarHR 801618 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.