A-type star · white star
HR 8444
HR 8444 is a white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 207 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,859 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 207 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 210271 · HIP 109404
7,859 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
24.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
207 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
24.87×
the Sun's light output
1.36
absolute magnitude
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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.