F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8257

HR 8257 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pegasus 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,118 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 232 years ago.

232 lybrightness mag 6.25F0IV

Also catalogued as HD 205539 · HIP 106595

7,118 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
13.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
232 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
13.93×
the Sun's light output
1.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 8257F-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pegasus

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.