B-type star · blue-white star
28 Vul
28 Vul is a blue-white star in the constellation Vulpecula 523 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,159 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 212× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 523 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7894 · HD 196740 · HIP 101868
12,159 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
212× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
523 years
at light speed from Earth
2.11×
as hot as the Sun
212×
the Sun's light output
-0.96
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.