A-type star · white star
26 Vul
26 Vul is a white star in the constellation Vulpecula 638 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,503 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 638 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7874 · HD 196362 · HIP 101641
8,503 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
91.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
638 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
91.88×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
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.