A-type star · white star
HR 8366
HR 8366 is a white star in the constellation Grus 336 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,185 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 336 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 208321 · HIP 108294
9,185 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
61.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
336 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
61.04×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.