B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8231
HR 8231 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,752 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 493 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 204862 · HIP 106243
10,752 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
72.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
493 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
72.38×
the Sun's light output
0.20
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.