A-type star · white star

HR 7461

HR 7461 is a white star in the constellation Telescopium 364 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,507 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 364 years ago.

364 lybrightness mag 6.24Am

Also catalogued as HD 185139 · HIP 96721

7,507 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
34.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
364 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
34.71×
the Sun's light output
1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 7461A-type
Sky regionTelescopiumthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Telescopium

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.