A-type star · white star

HR 8856

396 lybrightness mag 6.33A1/A2IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 219659 · HIP 115015

9,455 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
37.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1/A2IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
396 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
37.67×
the Sun's light output
0.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 8856A-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
Star93Psi2Aqr19 ly
StarHR 891722 ly
StarHD 22212542 ly
StarSadalsuudstar
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Aquarius
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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.