A-type star · white star
HR 8840
HR 8840 is a white star in the constellation Aquarius 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,412 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 232 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 219402 · HIP 114822
9,412 K
temperature
5.56
apparent magnitude
26.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
232 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
26.38×
the Sun's light output
1.30
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.