A-type star · white star

HR 986

HR 986 is a white star in the constellation Perseus 500 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,476 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 500 years ago.

500 lybrightness mag 5.97A2IV

Also catalogued as HD 20346 · HIP 15334

9,476 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
83.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
500 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
83.87×
the Sun's light output
0.04
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.