F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 8507
HR 8507 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 137 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,669 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 137 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 211575 · HIP 110091
6,669 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
4.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
137 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
4.27×
the Sun's light output
3.27
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.