A-type star · white star

HR 8370

HR 8370 is a white star in the constellation Octans 325 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,931 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 325 years ago.

325 lybrightness mag 6.39A5IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 208500 · HIP 108759

7,931 K

temperature

6.39

apparent magnitude

24.05× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

325 years

at light speed from Earth

1.37×

as hot as the Sun

24.05×

the Sun's light output

1.40

absolute magnitude

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HR 8370A-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

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Bright stars in Octans

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.