B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8408

HR 8408 is a blue-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 1,231 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,838 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 508× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,231 years ago.

1,231 lybrightness mag 5.97B3V (+B)

Also catalogued as HD 209522 · HIP 108975

12,838 K

temperature

5.97

apparent magnitude

508× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V (+B)

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,231 years

at light speed from Earth

2.22×

as hot as the Sun

508×

the Sun's light output

-1.91

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.