A-type star · white star

HR 8970

177 lybrightness mag 5.99A2m

Also catalogued as HD 222377 · HIP 116768

8,071 K

temperature

5.99

apparent magnitude

10.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

177 years

at light speed from Earth

1.40×

as hot as the Sun

10.36×

the Sun's light output

2.31

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8970A-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

Nearest stars

82 Peg →12 ly apart
70 Peg →13 ly apart
HR 9015 →24 ly apart
10The Psc →32 ly apart
8Kap Psc →35 ly apart
Alkarab →43 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.