A-type star · white star

HR 8599

HR 8599 is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 786 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,882 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 265× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 786 years ago.

786 lybrightness mag 5.70A2V

Also catalogued as HD 214035 · HIP 111242

9,882 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
265× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
786 years
at light speed from Earth
1.71×
as hot as the Sun
265×
the Sun's light output
-1.21
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.