A-type star · white star
HR 8169
HR 8169 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 609 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,412 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 115× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 608 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 203439 · HIP 105432
9,412 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
115× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
608 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
115×
the Sun's light output
-0.30
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.