G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

HR 7637

HR 7637 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Aquila 72.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,975 K, and it shines at 1.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 72 years ago.

72.4 lybrightness mag 5.87F8V

Also catalogued as HD 189340 · HIP 98416 · Gliese Gl 773.3

5,975 K

temperature

5.87

apparent magnitude

1.93× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

72 years

at light speed from Earth

1.04×

as hot as the Sun

1.93×

the Sun's light output

4.14

absolute magnitude

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HR 7637G-type

Sky regionAquilathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Aquila

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.