A-type star · white star

HR 7500

HR 7500 is a white star in the constellation Draco 507 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,071 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 507 years ago.

507 lybrightness mag 6.49A5V

Also catalogued as HD 186340 · HIP 96771

8,071 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
53.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
507 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
53.41×
the Sun's light output
0.53
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.