A-type star · white star

HR 8176

709 lybrightness mag 6.35B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 203532 · HIP 106474

9,135 K

temperature

6.35

apparent magnitude

119× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

709 years

at light speed from Earth

1.58×

as hot as the Sun

119×

the Sun's light output

-0.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8176A-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8129 →39 ly apart
HR 7494 →56 ly apart
HR 8810 →59 ly apart
HD 165338 →67 ly apart
HR 7812 →76 ly apart
HR 6139 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.