B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8768

HR 8768 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 1,062 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,382 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 262× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,062 years ago.

1,062 lybrightness mag 6.37B2V

Also catalogued as HD 217811 · HIP 113802

10,382 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
262× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,062 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
262×
the Sun's light output
-1.19
absolute magnitude
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HR 8768B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.