B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7268

HR 7268 is a blue-white star in the constellation Corona Australis 924 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 203× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 924 years ago.

924 lybrightness mag 6.34B7II/III

Also catalogued as HD 178628 · HIP 94243

10,051 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
203× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
924 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
203×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
absolute magnitude
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HR 7268B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Corona Australis

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.