B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8873

HR 8873 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 997 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,838 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 241× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 997 years ago.

997 lybrightness mag 6.32B8III

Also catalogued as HD 219927 · HIP 115148

10,838 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
241× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
997 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
241×
the Sun's light output
-1.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 8873B-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pegasus

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.