B-type star · blue-white star

HR 205

HR 205 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 427 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,986 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 427 years ago.

427 lybrightness mag 6.03B9.5IIIMNp.

Also catalogued as HD 4335 · HIP 3604

10,986 K

temperature

6.03

apparent magnitude

57.92× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5IIIMNp.

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

427 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

57.92×

the Sun's light output

0.44

absolute magnitude

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HR 205B-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

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Bright stars in Andromeda

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To 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.