B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8244

1,190 lybrightness mag 6.42B8IIIw

Also catalogued as HD 205265 · HIP 106564

11,523 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

314× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IIIw

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,190 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

314×

the Sun's light output

-1.39

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8244B-type

Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8408 →160 ly apart
HR 8378 →240 ly apart
HR 7997 →240 ly apart
39Eps Cap →240 ly apart
HR 8050 →270 ly apart
HR 7961 →300 ly apart

Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus

18Eps PsA →mag 4.2
23Del PsA →mag 4.2
17Bet PsA →mag 4.3
9Iot PsA →mag 4.3
22Gam PsA →mag 4.5
14Mu PsA →mag 4.5
15Tau PsA →mag 4.9
Ups PsA →mag 5.0

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.