B-type star · blue-white star
HR 7552
HR 7552 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 301 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,724 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 301 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 187474 · HIP 97749
10,724 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
55.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
301 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
55.41×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.