F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 7524
HR 7524 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pavo 189 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,356 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 189 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 186786 · HIP 97674
7,356 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
11.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
189 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
11.21×
the Sun's light output
2.23
absolute magnitude
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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.