F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8470

HR 8470 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 252 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,403 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 252 years ago.

252 lybrightness mag 5.58F7II

Also catalogued as HD 210848 · HIP 109737

6,403 K
temperature
5.58
apparent magnitude
30.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
252 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
30.59×
the Sun's light output
1.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 8470F-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.