B-type star · blue-white star
HR 9005
HR 9005 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cepheus 1,489 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,781 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 757× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,489 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 223128 · HIP 117265
10,781 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
757× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,489 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
757×
the Sun's light output
-2.35
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.