A-type star · white star

HD 434

HD 434 is a white star in the constellation Pegasus 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,852 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 6.47A4Vm

Also catalogued as HIP 728

7,852 K

temperature

6.47

apparent magnitude

27.64× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4Vm

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

362 years

at light speed from Earth

1.36×

as hot as the Sun

27.64×

the Sun's light output

1.25

absolute magnitude

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HD 434A-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Pegasus

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pegasus

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.