A-type star · white star

HR 7507

HR 7507 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 711 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,835 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 258× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 711 years ago.

711 lybrightness mag 5.51B8III

Also catalogued as HD 186500 · HIP 97260

9,835 K

temperature

5.51

apparent magnitude

258× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

711 years

at light speed from Earth

1.70×

as hot as the Sun

258×

the Sun's light output

-1.18

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.