A-type star · white star

HR 289

HR 289 is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 313 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,809 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 313 years ago.

313 lybrightness mag 6.46A9V

Also catalogued as HD 6114 · HIP 4911

7,809 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
20.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
313 years
at light speed from Earth
1.35×
as hot as the Sun
20.95×
the Sun's light output
1.55
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To 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.