B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7143

HR 7143 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 514 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,738 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 514 years ago.

514 lybrightness mag 6.20B9III

Also catalogued as HD 175640 · HIP 92963

10,738 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
71.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
514 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
71.52×
the Sun's light output
0.21
absolute magnitude
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HR 7143B-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
Star14 Aql26 ly
StarHR 714438 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquila

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.