F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 8629
HR 8629 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 113 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,300 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 113 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 214810 · HIP 111965
6,300 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
3.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
113 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
3.08×
the Sun's light output
3.63
absolute magnitude
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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.