B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8136
HR 8136 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,476 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,085 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 469× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,476 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 202654 · HIP 104962
12,085 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
469× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,476 years
at light speed from Earth
2.09×
as hot as the Sun
469×
the Sun's light output
-1.83
absolute magnitude
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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.