B-type star · blue-white star

HR 282

HR 282 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,252 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 388 years ago.

388 lybrightness mag 5.69B9.5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 5788 · HIP 4675

10,252 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
65.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
65.40×
the Sun's light output
0.31
absolute magnitude
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HR 282B-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarHR 20543 ly
Star39 And44 ly
StarHR 27250 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.