B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8706

HR 8706 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lacerta 994 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,153 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 238× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 994 years ago.

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
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HR 8706B-type
Sky regionLacertathis direction
StarHR 862664 ly
StarHR 865177 ly
StarHR 8768100 ly
StarStelliostar
Star1 Lacstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lacerta
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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.