B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8549

HR 8549 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lacerta 1,496 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,141 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 478× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,496 years ago.

1,496 lybrightness mag 6.46B2V

Also catalogued as HD 212883 · HIP 110790

12,141 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
478× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,496 years
at light speed from Earth
2.10×
as hot as the Sun
478×
the Sun's light output
-1.85
absolute magnitude
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HR 8549B-type
Sky regionLacertathis direction
StarHR 8733170 ly
Star12 Lac180 ly
Star10 Lac240 ly
StarStelliostar
Star1 Lacstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lacerta
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.