F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 7044
HR 7044 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lyra 164 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,101 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 164 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 173417 · HIP 91883
7,101 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
11.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
164 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
11.78×
the Sun's light output
2.17
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.