B-type star · blue-white star

17 Dra

17 Dra is a blue-white star in the constellation Draco 412 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,475 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 130× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 412 years ago.

412 lybrightness mag 5.07B9V

Also catalogued as HR 6185 · HD 150117 · HIP 81292

10,475 K
temperature
5.07
apparent magnitude
130× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
412 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
130×
the Sun's light output
-0.44
absolute magnitude
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17 DraB-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
Star16 Dra15 ly
StarHR 615018 ly
Star42 Her29 ly
StarEltaninstar
StarAthebynestar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Draco
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.