A-type star · white star
16 Del
16 Del is a white star in the constellation Delphinus 197 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,739 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 197 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8012 · HD 199254 · HIP 103298
8,739 K
temperature
5.54
apparent magnitude
19.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
197 years
at light speed from Earth
1.51×
as hot as the Sun
19.39×
the Sun's light output
1.63
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.