F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 7047

HR 7047 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 143 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,689 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 143 years ago.

143 lybrightness mag 6.30F6V

Also catalogued as HD 173494 · HIP 91958

6,689 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
5.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
143 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
5.08×
the Sun's light output
3.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 7047F-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 726314 ly
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.