B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7118

HR 7118 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 1,607 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,295 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 650× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,607 years ago.

1,607 lybrightness mag 6.28B9p Si

Also catalogued as HD 175132 · HIP 92599

11,295 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
650× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,607 years
at light speed from Earth
1.96×
as hot as the Sun
650×
the Sun's light output
-2.18
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.