B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8962

HR 8962 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 807 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,001 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 253× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 807 years ago.

807 lybrightness mag 5.81B8V

Also catalogued as HD 222109 · HIP 116582

11,001 K

temperature

5.81

apparent magnitude

253× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

807 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

253×

the Sun's light output

-1.16

absolute magnitude

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HR 8962B-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Andromeda

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.