B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8723

HR 8723 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lacerta 624 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,809 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 162× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 624 years ago.

624 lybrightness mag 5.73B7III

Also catalogued as HD 216831 · HIP 113222

10,809 K
temperature
5.73
apparent magnitude
162× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
624 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
162×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 8723B-type
Sky regionLacertathis direction
StarHD 21836533 ly
StarHR 865482 ly
Star1 Lac87 ly
StarStelliostar
Star5 Lacstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lacerta
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.