B-type star · blue-white star

Rasalnaqa

499 lybrightness mag 4.29B8V

Also catalogued as 17Iot And · HR 8965 · HD 222173 · HIP 116631

11,295 K

temperature

4.29

apparent magnitude

393× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

499 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

393×

the Sun's light output

-1.64

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

RasalnaqaB-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

Nearest stars

10 And →36 ly apart
HD 800 →67 ly apart
9 And →83 ly apart
HD 222748 →86 ly apart
8 And →89 ly apart
2 And →94 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 4.3To 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.