F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 7160
HR 7160 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Draco 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,487 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 291 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 175938 · HIP 92040
7,487 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
19.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
19.12×
the Sun's light output
1.65
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.