A-type star · white star

HR 286

HR 286 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 336 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,961 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 336 years ago.

336 lybrightness mag 6.46A3V

Also catalogued as HD 5914 · HIP 7283

8,961 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
24.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
336 years
at light speed from Earth
1.55×
as hot as the Sun
24.12×
the Sun's light output
1.39
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Minor

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.