B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8731

822 lybrightness mag 5.34B4IIIpe

Also catalogued as HD 217050 · HIP 113327

11,607 K

temperature

5.34

apparent magnitude

404× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4IIIpe

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

822 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

404×

the Sun's light output

-1.67

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8731B-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8705 →48 ly apart
HR 8682 →110 ly apart
HR 8744 →110 ly apart
HR 8925 →120 ly apart
HR 8962 →120 ly apart
HD 211660 →120 ly apart

Bright stars in Lacerta

Stellio →mag 3.8
1 Lac →mag 4.1
5 Lac →mag 4.3
3Bet Lac →mag 4.4
11 Lac →mag 4.5
6 Lac →mag 4.5
2 Lac →mag 4.5
4 Lac →mag 4.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lacerta

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.