B-type star · blue-white star
HR 7177
HR 7177 is a blue-white star in the constellation Corona Australis 404 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,113 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 404 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 176425 · HIP 93470
10,113 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
43.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
404 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
43.89×
the Sun's light output
0.74
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.