B-type star · blue-white star
HR 8910
HR 8910 is a blue-white star in the constellation Phoenix 457 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,247 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 457 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 220802 · HIP 115759
11,247 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
55.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
457 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
55.72×
the Sun's light output
0.48
absolute magnitude
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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.