A-type star · white star
HR 8959
HR 8959 is a white star in the constellation Phoenix 200 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,205 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 200 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 222095 · HIP 116602
9,205 K
temperature
4.74
apparent magnitude
41.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
200 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
41.69×
the Sun's light output
0.80
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.