A-type star · white star

HR 8851

HR 8851 is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 379 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,705 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 379 years ago.

379 lybrightness mag 5.55F0IV

Also catalogued as HD 219586 · HIP 114831

7,705 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
70.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
379 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
70.99×
the Sun's light output
0.22
absolute magnitude
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HR 8851A-type
Sky regionCepheusthis direction
Star24 Cep39 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.