F-type star · yellow-white star
15 Del
15 Del is a yellow-white star in the constellation Delphinus 99.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,776 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 100 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7973 · HD 198390 · HIP 102805
6,776 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
3.22× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
100 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
3.22×
the Sun's light output
3.58
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.