B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7452

HR 7452 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vulpecula 668 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,926 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 668 years ago.

668 lybrightness mag 6.33B9sp...

Also catalogued as HD 184961 · HIP 96417

10,926 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9sp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
668 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vulpecula

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.