F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8220

HR 8220 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cygnus 146 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,258 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 146 years ago.

146 lybrightness mag 5.75F0V

Also catalogued as HD 204485 · HIP 106003

7,258 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
8.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
146 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
8.73×
the Sun's light output
2.50
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.