A-type star · white star

HR 8588

HR 8588 is a white star in the constellation Lacerta 684 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,436 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 170× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 684 years ago.

684 lybrightness mag 5.88A6V

Also catalogued as HD 213660 · HIP 111259

8,436 K

temperature

5.88

apparent magnitude

170× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

684 years

at light speed from Earth

1.46×

as hot as the Sun

170×

the Sun's light output

-0.73

absolute magnitude

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HR 8588A-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

StarHR 865429 ly

StarAlfarasalkamil73 ly

Star1 Lac76 ly

StarStelliostar

Star5 Lacstar

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Lacerta

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.