B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7202

HR 7202 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 650 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 183× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 650 years ago.

650 lybrightness mag 5.69B5V

Also catalogued as HD 176871 · HIP 93393

11,343 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
183× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
650 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
183×
the Sun's light output
-0.81
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.