A-type star · white star

HR 8216

HR 8216 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 411 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,951 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 106× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 411 years ago.

411 lybrightness mag 5.29A6pe...

Also catalogued as HD 204411 · HIP 105898

8,951 K

temperature

5.29

apparent magnitude

106× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6pe...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

411 years

at light speed from Earth

1.55×

as hot as the Sun

106×

the Sun's light output

-0.21

absolute magnitude

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HR 8216A-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cygnus

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.