B-type star · blue-white star

20 Vul

20 Vul is a blue-white star in the constellation Vulpecula 805 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,692 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 230× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 805 years ago.

805 lybrightness mag 5.91B7Ve...

Also catalogued as HR 7719 · HD 192044 · HIP 99531

11,692 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
230× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7Ve...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
805 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
230×
the Sun's light output
-1.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vulpecula

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.