A-type star · white star

HR 2209

HR 2209 is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,824 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 175 years ago.

175 lybrightness mag 4.76A0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 42818 · HIP 29997

9,824 K

temperature

4.76

apparent magnitude

31.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

175 years

at light speed from Earth

1.70×

as hot as the Sun

31.28×

the Sun's light output

1.11

absolute magnitude

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HR 2209A-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.