B-type star · blue-white star

Campbell's Hydrogen Star

brightness mag 10.00WC...

Also catalogued as HD 184738 · HIP 96295

10,290 K

temperature

10.00

apparent magnitude

870,964× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

WC...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.78×

as hot as the Sun

870,964×

the Sun's light output

-10.00

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Campbell's Hydrogen StarB-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7551 →24,000 ly apart
HR 7678 →38,000 ly apart
34 Cyg →66,000 ly apart
HR 7823 →66,000 ly apart
HR 7716 →68,000 ly apart
HD 193469 →71,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

SMALL TELESCOPE NEEDED

Brightness mag 10.0To see it 4-6" (100-150 mm) telescopeLook toward Cygnus

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.