A-type star · white star

HR 8446

HR 8446 is a white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 418 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 418 years ago.

418 lybrightness mag 6.44A5V

Also catalogued as HD 210300 · HIP 109412

8,597 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
37.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
418 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
37.91×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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HR 8446A-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.