F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8999

224 lybrightness mag 6.23F3/F5V

Also catalogued as HD 222872 · HIP 117107

6,412 K

temperature

6.23

apparent magnitude

13.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3/F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

224 years

at light speed from Earth

1.11×

as hot as the Sun

13.27×

the Sun's light output

2.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 8999F-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 220466 →32 ly apart
100 Aqr →34 ly apart
107 Aqr →34 ly apart
86 Aqr →35 ly apart
Kap1Scl →37 ly apart
HR 9095 →37 ly apart

Bright stars in Sculptor

Alp Scl →mag 4.3
Bet Scl →mag 4.4
Gam Scl →mag 4.4
Del Scl →mag 4.6
Eta Scl →mag 4.9
Zet Scl →mag 5.0
Iot Scl →mag 5.2
The Scl →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sculptor

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.