B-type star · blue-white star
15 Sgr
15 Sgr is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius. Its surface is about 10,039 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 66,680,677× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.29B0/1Ia/ab
Also catalogued as HR 6822 · HD 167264 · HIP 89439
10,039 K
temperature
5.29
apparent magnitude
66,680,677× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0/1Ia/ab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
66,680,677×
the Sun's light output
-14.71
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.