B-type star · blue-white star
HR 7073
HR 7073 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 911 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,920 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 256× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 911 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 173936 · HIP 92098
11,920 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
256× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
911 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
256×
the Sun's light output
-1.17
absolute magnitude
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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.