A-type star · white star

HR 8799

129 lybrightness mag 5.97A5V

Also catalogued as HD 218396 · HIP 114189

7,733 K

temperature

5.97

apparent magnitude

5.54× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

129 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

5.54×

the Sun's light output

2.99

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8799A-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8784 →14 ly apart
Markab →14 ly apart
HR 8788 →15 ly apart
Sadalbari →25 ly apart
HR 8631 →26 ly apart
33 Peg →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Pegasus

Enif →mag 2.4
Scheat →mag 2.4
Markab →mag 2.5
Algenib →mag 2.8
Matar →mag 2.9
Homam →mag 3.4
Sadalbari →mag 3.5
Biham →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.