B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8125

HR 8125 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pavo 515 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,001 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 515 years ago.

515 lybrightness mag 6.32B8V

Also catalogued as HD 202299 · HIP 105148

11,001 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
64.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
515 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
64.45×
the Sun's light output
0.33
absolute magnitude
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HR 8125B-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pavo

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.