B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7512

HR 7512 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,080 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,107 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 366× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,080 years ago.

1,080 lybrightness mag 6.04B8III

Also catalogued as HD 186568 · HIP 97087

11,107 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
366× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,080 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
366×
the Sun's light output
-1.56
absolute magnitude
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HR 7512B-type
Sky regionCygnusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.