B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8292
HR 8292 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 700 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,831 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 700 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 206540 · HIP 107173
11,831 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
700 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
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.