B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7397

HR 7397 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 962 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,163 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 350× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 962 years ago.

962 lybrightness mag 5.84B6III

Also catalogued as HD 183227 · HIP 95732

10,163 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
350× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
962 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
350×
the Sun's light output
-1.51
absolute magnitude
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HR 7397B-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.