B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8706

994 lybrightness mag 6.33B7III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 216538 · HIP 113009

11,153 K

temperature

6.33

apparent magnitude

238× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III-IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

994 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

238×

the Sun's light output

-1.09

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8706B-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8626 →64 ly apart
HR 8651 →77 ly apart
HR 8768 →100 ly apart
HD 220524 →110 ly apart
HR 8873 →130 ly apart
14 Lac →150 ly apart

Bright stars in Lacerta

Stellio →mag 3.8
1 Lac →mag 4.1
5 Lac →mag 4.3
3Bet Lac →mag 4.4
11 Lac →mag 4.5
6 Lac →mag 4.5
2 Lac →mag 4.5
4 Lac →mag 4.5

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lacerta

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.