A-type star · white star

HR 8895

HR 8895 is a white star in the constellation Grus 387 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,740 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 387 years ago.

387 lybrightness mag 6.13A4III

Also catalogued as HD 220392 · HIP 115510

7,740 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

43.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

387 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

43.29×

the Sun's light output

0.76

absolute magnitude

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HR 8895A-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

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Bright stars in Grus

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Grus

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.