F-type star · yellow-white star

Delta Sct

Delta Sct is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scutum 202 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,112 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 202 years ago.

202 lybrightness mag 4.70F2IIIp d Del

Also catalogued as HR 7020 · HD 172748 · HIP 91726

7,112 K
temperature
4.70
apparent magnitude
44.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IIIp d Del
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
202 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
44.26×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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Delta SctF-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarAlpha Sct7.5 ly
StarZeta Sct17 ly
StarEta Sct17 ly
StarBeta Sctstar
StarGamma Sctstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scutum
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.