B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7179

HR 7179 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 979 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,409 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 260× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 979 years ago.

979 lybrightness mag 6.20B3V

Also catalogued as HD 176502 · HIP 93177

12,409 K
temperature
6.20
apparent magnitude
260× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
979 years
at light speed from Earth
2.15×
as hot as the Sun
260×
the Sun's light output
-1.19
absolute magnitude
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HR 7179B-type
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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.