A-type star · white star

HR 7288

HR 7288 is a white star in the constellation Aquila 482 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,028 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 482 years ago.

482 lybrightness mag 6.47A3V

Also catalogued as HD 179791 · HIP 94478

9,028 K

temperature

6.47

apparent magnitude

49.20× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

482 years

at light speed from Earth

1.56×

as hot as the Sun

49.20×

the Sun's light output

0.62

absolute magnitude

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HR 7288A-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

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Bright stars in Aquila

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquila

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.