A-type star · white star
HR 9060
HR 9060 is a white star in the constellation Tucana 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,018 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 224361 · HIP 118092
9,018 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
15.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
15.83×
the Sun's light output
1.85
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.