A-type star · white star
17 Cap
17 Cap is a white star in the constellation Capricornus 264 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,370 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 264 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7937 · HD 197725 · HIP 102487
9,370 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
24.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
264 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
24.62×
the Sun's light output
1.37
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.