B-type star · blue-white star

Phi Sgr

Phi Sgr is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 239 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,692 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 253× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 239 years ago.

239 lybrightness mag 3.17B8.5III

Also catalogued as HR 7039 · HD 173300 · HIP 92041

11,692 K
temperature
3.17
apparent magnitude
253× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
239 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
253×
the Sun's light output
-1.16
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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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.