B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8349

HR 8349 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,016 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,061 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 280× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,016 years ago.

1,016 lybrightness mag 6.20B9p HgMn

Also catalogued as HD 207857 · HIP 107856

11,061 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
280× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p HgMn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,016 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
280×
the Sun's light output
-1.27
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.