F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8536

HR 8536 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lacerta 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,458 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 172 years ago.

172 lybrightness mag 6.18F5IV:

Also catalogued as HD 212487 · HIP 110566

6,458 K

temperature

6.18

apparent magnitude

8.22× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5IV:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

172 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

8.22×

the Sun's light output

2.56

absolute magnitude

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HR 8536F-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

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Bright stars in Lacerta

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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.