B-type star · blue-white star
52 Sgr
52 Sgr is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 190 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,169 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 190 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7440 · HD 184707 · HIP 96465
11,169 K
temperature
4.59
apparent magnitude
42.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
190 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
42.93×
the Sun's light output
0.77
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.