B-type star · blue-white star
13 Del
13 Del is a blue-white star in the constellation Delphinus 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,252 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 88.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7953 · HD 198069 · HIP 102633
10,252 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
88.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
88.96×
the Sun's light output
-0.02
absolute magnitude
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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.