B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8451

HR 8451 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 483 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,201 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 483 years ago.

483 lybrightness mag 6.28A1Vnn

Also catalogued as HD 210419 · HIP 109442

10,201 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
58.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vnn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
483 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
58.78×
the Sun's light output
0.43
absolute magnitude
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HR 8451B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.