B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8528

HR 8528 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lacerta 556 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 556 years ago.

556 lybrightness mag 6.38B5V

Also catalogued as HD 212222 · HIP 110408

11,343 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

70.93× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

556 years

at light speed from Earth

1.97×

as hot as the Sun

70.93×

the Sun's light output

0.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 8528B-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

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Bright stars in Lacerta

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lacerta

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.