A-type star · white star
HR 8970
HR 8970 is a white star in the constellation Pegasus 177 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,071 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 177 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 222377 · HIP 116768
8,071 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
10.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
177 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
10.36×
the Sun's light output
2.31
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.