B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8861

HR 8861 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 587 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,612 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 587 years ago.

587 lybrightness mag 6.48B9p...

Also catalogued as HD 219749 · HIP 115036

10,612 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
72.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
587 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
72.11×
the Sun's light output
0.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 8861B-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.