A-type star · white star

HR 8235

HR 8235 is a white star in the constellation Capricornus 222 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,163 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 222 years ago.

222 lybrightness mag 6.43A7V

Also catalogued as HD 204943 · HIP 106363

8,163 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
10.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
222 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
10.76×
the Sun's light output
2.27
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Capricornus

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.