A-type star · white star

HR 7549

HR 7549 is a white star in the constellation Telescopium 197 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,028 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 197 years ago.

197 lybrightness mag 6.50A2V

Also catalogued as HD 187421 · HIP 97819

9,028 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
8.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
197 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
8.02×
the Sun's light output
2.59
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Telescopium

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.