B-type star · blue-white star

HR 8962

807 lybrightness mag 5.81B8V

Also catalogued as HD 222109 · HIP 116582

11,001 K

temperature

5.81

apparent magnitude

253× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

807 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

253×

the Sun's light output

-1.16

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8962B-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8986 →67 ly apart
HR 8981 →92 ly apart
HR 8950 →100 ly apart
HR 8731 →120 ly apart
HR 8925 →120 ly apart
HR 8927 →150 ly apart

Bright stars in Andromeda

Alpheratz →mag 2.1
Mirach →mag 2.1
Almach →mag 2.1
31Del And →mag 3.3
Nembus →mag 3.6
Alfarasalkamil →mag 3.6
Udkadua →mag 3.8
37Mu And →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.