9 Equulei
# 9 Equulei

9 Equulei is an M-type star in the constellation Equuleus. It is an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star, a star that has exhausted its core helium and is now fusing both hydrogen and helium in shells outside the core. It is also a suspected variable star with an amplitude of about 0.05 magnitudes.

The spectral type is M2IIIa, meaning it is a relatively cool giant star. As an AGB star, it is burning hydrogen and helium in shells around an inert carbon-oxygen core. It has expanded to 58 times the radius of the Sun, and it radiates 720 times as much electromagnetic radiation from a photosphere with an effective temperature of 3,920 K.

