B-type star · blue-white star
HR 7600
HR 7600 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,639 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,029 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 664× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,639 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 188439 · HIP 97845
12,029 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
664× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0.5IIIn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,639 years
at light speed from Earth
2.08×
as hot as the Sun
664×
the Sun's light output
-2.21
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.