A-type star · white star
HR 8463
HR 8463 is a white star in the constellation Lacerta 183 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,554 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 183 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 210715 · HIP 109521
8,554 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
19.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
183 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
19.36×
the Sun's light output
1.63
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.