B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7554

HR 7554 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 1,726 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 618× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,726 years ago.

1,726 lybrightness mag 6.49B2.5IVe

Also catalogued as HD 187567 · HIP 97607

11,343 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
618× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5IVe
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,726 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
618×
the Sun's light output
-2.13
absolute magnitude
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HR 7554B-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Aquila

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.