A-type star · white star
26 Sgr
26 Sgr is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 205 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,931 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 205 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7011 · HD 172546 · HIP 91689
7,931 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
11.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
205 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
11.20×
the Sun's light output
2.23
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.