B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8218
HR 8218 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 448 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,726 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 448 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 204428 · HIP 105891
11,726 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
64.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
448 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
64.80×
the Sun's light output
0.32
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.