B-type star · blue-white star

26 And

662 lybrightness mag 6.10B8V

Also catalogued as HR 70 · HD 1438 · HIP 1501

11,153 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

130× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

662 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

130×

the Sun's light output

-0.44

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

26 AndB-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 36 →52 ly apart
HR 152 →58 ly apart
HR 9080 →62 ly apart
HR 189 →78 ly apart
HR 9083 →79 ly apart
HD 1601 →80 ly apart

Bright stars in Andromeda

Alpheratz →mag 2.1
Mirach →mag 2.1
Almach →mag 2.1
31Del And →mag 3.3
Nembus →mag 3.6
Alfarasalkamil →mag 3.6
Udkadua →mag 3.8
37Mu And →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To 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.