B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8490

1,305 lybrightness mag 6.13B8Vn

Also catalogued as HD 211242 · HIP 109746

11,391 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

492× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,305 years

at light speed from Earth

1.97×

as hot as the Sun

492×

the Sun's light output

-1.88

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8490B-type

Sky regionCepheusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8707 →130 ly apart
HR 8808 →140 ly apart
HR 8803 →180 ly apart
HR 8226 →220 ly apart
HR 8648 →230 ly apart
1 Cas →230 ly apart

Bright stars in Cepheus

Alderamin →mag 2.5
Errai →mag 3.2
Alfirk →mag 3.2
21Zet Cep →mag 3.4
3Eta Cep →mag 3.4
32Iot Cep →mag 3.5
27Del Cep →mag 4.1
23Eps Cep →mag 4.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.