HR 8095 (HIP 104481)

HR 8095 is a yellow-white main-sequence star in the constellation Equuleus. At 214 light years away, it shines at an apparent visual magnitude of 6.43. It is moving through the Galaxy at a speed of 46.7 km/s relative to the Sun.

Sky position: RA 21h 10.0m, Dec +2° 56.6'

Common designations: HR 8095, HD 201507, Gaia DR3 1731712847900164992, HIP 104481

HR 8095 has the spectral type F2V. F-type stars are yellow-white stars of about 6,000 to 7,500 K, slightly hotter and more massive than the Sun. Their hydrogen lines are weaker than in A stars and metal lines become prominent. Its luminosity class V means it is a main-sequence (dwarf) star, still fusing hydrogen into helium in its core like the Sun.

How to find HR 8095 in the sky

HR 8095 lies in Equuleus. With a declination of +2° 56.6', it is visible from the entire Northern Hemisphere and from the Southern Hemisphere down to about latitude 87° S. It is just beyond naked-eye visibility; binoculars will show it easily. It is highest in the sky at local midnight around September, which makes the weeks around that month the best time to observe it.

Tabulated data for HR 8095

Astrometry and spectroscopy

Right Ascension (J2000)	317.49276878° (21h 10.0m)
Declination (J2000)	2.94369711° (+2° 56.6')
Galactic Longitude	53.26534280°
Galactic Latitude	-28.79750060°
Proper motion RA	48.90 mas/yr
Proper motion Dec	10.88 mas/yr
Parallax	15.25 ± 0.31 mas
Spectral Type	F2V
Radial Velocity	-44.00 km/s

Photometry

Band	Magnitude	Abs. Mag.
B	6.80	2.72
V	6.43	2.35
J	5.69	1.61
H	5.49	1.40
K	5.45	1.37

Colour index B-V: +0.37

Derivations

Heliocentric distance: 65.56 pc (214 light years) (2.0% margin of error)
Absolute visual magnitude: 2.35
Transverse velocity: 15.6 km/s
Space velocity relative to the Sun: 46.7 km/s
Galactic position (X, Y, Z): 34.4 pc, 46.0 pc, -31.6 pc
Galactic velocity (U, V, W): -35.1 km/s, -28.4 km/s, 11.7 km/s

Data: Extended Hipparcos Compilation (XHIP) and SIMBAD.