B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8338
HR 8338 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 475 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 475 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 207516 · HIP 107664
11,122 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
66.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
475 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
66.99×
the Sun's light output
0.28
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.