F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8732

HR 8732 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,039 K, and it shines at 16.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 242 years ago.

242 lybrightness mag 6.15F7V

Also catalogued as HD 217096 · HIP 113447

6,039 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
16.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
242 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
16.69×
the Sun's light output
1.79
absolute magnitude
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HR 8732F-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
StarHR 868022 ly
StarHR 883529 ly
StarGamma PsA29 ly
StarEpsilon PsAstar
StarDelta PsAstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.