B-type star · blue-white star

7 Vul

7 Vul is a blue-white star in the constellation Vulpecula 1,161 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,523 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 321× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,161 years ago.

1,161 lybrightness mag 6.34B5Vn

Also catalogued as HR 7409 · HD 183537 · HIP 95818

11,523 K

temperature

6.34

apparent magnitude

321× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,161 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

321×

the Sun's light output

-1.42

absolute magnitude

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7 VulB-type

Sky regionVulpeculathis direction

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Bright stars in Vulpecula

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vulpecula

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.