A-type star · white star

HR 7481

HR 7481 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 489 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,086 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 489 years ago.

489 lybrightness mag 6.10A3IV

Also catalogued as HD 185837 · HIP 96724

9,086 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

71.06× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

489 years

at light speed from Earth

1.57×

as hot as the Sun

71.06×

the Sun's light output

0.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 7481A-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cygnus

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.