B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8161

545 lybrightness mag 5.75B6V

Also catalogued as HD 203245 · HIP 105282

11,903 K

temperature

5.75

apparent magnitude

122× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

545 years

at light speed from Earth

2.06×

as hot as the Sun

122×

the Sun's light output

-0.37

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8161B-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8237 →46 ly apart
HR 8275 →51 ly apart
HR 8262 →55 ly apart
HR 8272 →55 ly apart
HR 8246 →56 ly apart
57 Cyg →67 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cygnus

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.