B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7346

HR 7346 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 940 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,440 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 218× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 940 years ago.

940 lybrightness mag 6.30B9V

Also catalogued as HD 181828 · HIP 95067

11,440 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
218× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
940 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
218×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 7346B-type
Sky regionLyrathis direction
StarIota Lyr63 ly
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Star8 Cyg88 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.