A-type star · white star
HR 8983
HR 8983 is a white star in the constellation Pisces 324 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,018 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 324 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 222602 · HIP 116918
9,018 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
37.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
324 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
37.91×
the Sun's light output
0.90
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.