B-type star · blue-white star

HR 266

538 lybrightness mag 5.56B8V

Also catalogued as HD 5408 · HIP 4440

10,853 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

142× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

538 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

142×

the Sun's light output

-0.53

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 266B-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

Cih →11 ly apart
HR 177 →59 ly apart
HR 144 →64 ly apart
HR 326 →70 ly apart
HR 96 →81 ly apart
HR 9017 →86 ly apart

Bright stars in Cassiopeia

Cih →mag 2.1
Schedar →mag 2.2
Caph →mag 2.3
Ruchbah →mag 2.7
Segin →mag 3.4
Achird →mag 3.5
Fulu →mag 3.7
50 Cas →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cassiopeia

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.