B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7223

HR 7223 is a blue-white star in the constellation Telescopium 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,342 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 385 years ago.

385 lybrightness mag 5.95A0V

Also catalogued as HD 177406 · HIP 93862

10,342 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
50.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
50.49×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 7223B-type
Sky regionTelescopiumthis direction
StarHR 727124 ly
StarIota Tel34 ly
StarHR 700535 ly
StarAlpha Telstar
StarZeta Telstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Telescopium
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Telescopium

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.