A-type star · white star

HR 8672

HR 8672 is a white star in the constellation Indus 344 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,318 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 344 years ago.

344 lybrightness mag 6.35A2V

Also catalogued as HD 215729 · HIP 112694

9,318 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
27.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
344 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
27.95×
the Sun's light output
1.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 8672A-type
Sky regionIndusthis direction
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StarAlpha Indstar
StarBeta Indstar
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Bright stars in Indus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Indus

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.