B-type star · blue-white star
Kaffalmusalsala
Kaffalmusalsala is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 168 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,107 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 168 years ago.
Also catalogued as Kappa And · HR 8976 · HD 222439 · HIP 116805
11,107 K
temperature
4.15
apparent magnitude
50.77× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IVn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
168 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
50.77×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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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.