A-type star · white star

HR 8616

HR 8616 is a white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,686 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 424 years ago.

424 lybrightness mag 5.66A0V

Also catalogued as HD 214484 · HIP 111809

9,686 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
80.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
424 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
80.02×
the Sun's light output
0.09
absolute magnitude
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HR 8616A-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.