A-type star · white star
15 Vul
15 Vul is a white star in the constellation Vulpecula 236 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,289 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 236 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7653 · HD 189849 · HIP 98543
8,289 K
temperature
4.66
apparent magnitude
62.57× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
236 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
62.57×
the Sun's light output
0.36
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.