A-type star · white star
HR 7012
HR 7012 is a white star in the constellation Pavo 93.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,171 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 93 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 172555 · HIP 92024
8,171 K
temperature
4.78
apparent magnitude
8.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
93 years
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
8.69×
the Sun's light output
2.50
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.