B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8384

HR 8384 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cepheus 1,726 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,882 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 666× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,726 years ago.

1,726 lybrightness mag 6.41B2V

Also catalogued as HD 208947 · HIP 108364

10,882 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
666× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,726 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
666×
the Sun's light output
-2.21
absolute magnitude
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HR 8384B-type
Sky regionCepheusthis direction
StarHR 8243280 ly
Star6 Cep290 ly
Star2 Cas320 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.