F-type star · yellow-white star
Albaldah
Albaldah is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,005 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,498× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.
Also catalogued as Pi Sgr · HR 7264 · HD 178524 · HIP 94141
7,005 K
temperature
2.88
apparent magnitude
1,498× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
1,498×
the Sun's light output
-3.09
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.