B-type star · blue-white star
HR 7174
HR 7174 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 578 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,407 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 121× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 578 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 176318 · HIP 93104
11,407 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
121× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
578 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
121×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.