F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 8457
HR 8457 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 184 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,375 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 184 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 210464 · HIP 109509
6,375 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
10.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6/F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
184 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
10.04×
the Sun's light output
2.35
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.