B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8246

HR 8246 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,681 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.81× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 5.77A0V

Also catalogued as HD 205314 · HIP 106393

10,681 K

temperature

5.77

apparent magnitude

97.81× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

493 years

at light speed from Earth

1.85×

as hot as the Sun

97.81×

the Sun's light output

-0.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 8246B-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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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.