B-type star · blue-white star

12 Vul

12 Vul is a blue-white star in the constellation Vulpecula 630 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,549 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 356× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 630 years ago.

630 lybrightness mag 4.90B2.5V

Also catalogued as HR 7565 · HD 187811 · HIP 97679

12,549 K
temperature
4.90
apparent magnitude
356× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
630 years
at light speed from Earth
2.17×
as hot as the Sun
356×
the Sun's light output
-1.53
absolute magnitude
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12 VulB-type
Sky regionVulpeculathis direction
StarHR 745255 ly
StarDelta Sge57 ly
StarHR 739171 ly
StarAnserstar
Star23 Vulstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vulpecula
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vulpecula

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.