A-type star · white star

HR 7588

HR 7588 is a white star in the constellation Pavo 345 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,453 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 345 years ago.

345 lybrightness mag 6.38A2V

Also catalogued as HD 188164 · HIP 98346

8,453 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
27.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
345 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
27.31×
the Sun's light output
1.26
absolute magnitude
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HR 7588A-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pavo

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.