F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8973

HR 8973 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Andromeda 296 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,129 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 296 years ago.

296 lybrightness mag 6.49F2IV

Also catalogued as HD 222399 · HIP 116781

7,129 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
18.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
296 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
18.21×
the Sun's light output
1.70
absolute magnitude
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HR 8973F-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
Star73 Peg23 ly
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Bright stars in Andromeda
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.