B-type star · blue-white star
HD 179419
Also catalogued as HIP 94770
10,738 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
131× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
769 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
131×
the Sun's light output
-0.44
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.