B-type star · blue-white star

HR 9086

HR 9086 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 1,222 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,681 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 386× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,222 years ago.

1,222 lybrightness mag 6.25B9IIIp Mn

Also catalogued as HD 224906 · HIP 137

10,681 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
386× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IIIp Mn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,222 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
386×
the Sun's light output
-1.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 9086B-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarHR 910540 ly
Star22 And86 ly
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Bright stars in Andromeda
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.