A-type star · white star

HR 7003

HR 7003 is a white star in the constellation Lyra 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,788 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 429 years ago.

429 lybrightness mag 6.21F0V

Also catalogued as HD 172187 · HIP 91250

7,788 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
49.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
1.35×
as hot as the Sun
49.34×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lyra

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.