F-type star · yellow-white star
30 Sgr
30 Sgr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 230 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,934 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 230 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7088 · HD 174309 · HIP 92480
6,934 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
13.22× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
230 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
13.22×
the Sun's light output
2.05
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.