B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8919

HR 8919 is a blue-white star in the constellation Tucana 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,331 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 386 years ago.

386 lybrightness mag 5.66Ap Si

Also catalogued as HD 221006 · HIP 115908

12,331 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
66.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
386 years
at light speed from Earth
2.14×
as hot as the Sun
66.56×
the Sun's light output
0.29
absolute magnitude
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HR 8919B-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarEpsilon Tuc31 ly
StarHR 868937 ly
StarHD 56556 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.