A-type star · white star

HR 8593

HR 8593 is a white star in the constellation Tucana 219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,071 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 219 years ago.

219 lybrightness mag 6.22F0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 213884 · HIP 111548

8,071 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
12.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
219 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
12.72×
the Sun's light output
2.09
absolute magnitude
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HR 8593A-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarKappa¹ Ind19 ly
StarLang-Exster22 ly
StarDelta Ind37 ly
StarGamma Tucstar
StarZeta Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Tucana

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.