A-type star · white star

HR 8237

HR 8237 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 517 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,226 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 517 years ago.

517 lybrightness mag 6.02A3V

Also catalogued as HD 204965 · HIP 106171

9,226 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
85.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
517 years
at light speed from Earth
1.60×
as hot as the Sun
85.51×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.