A-type star · white star

HR 8756

HR 8756 is a white star in the constellation Aquarius 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,784 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 394 years ago.

394 lybrightness mag 6.27A2V

Also catalogued as HD 217498 · HIP 113673

8,784 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
39.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
39.45×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 8756A-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquarius

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.