F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 7496
HR 7496 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,576 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 160 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 186185 · HIP 97063 · Gliese GJ 9666
6,576 K
temperature
5.49
apparent magnitude
13.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
160 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
13.28×
the Sun's light output
2.04
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.