A-type star · white star

HR 7698

HR 7698 is a white star in the constellation Octans 247 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,140 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 247 years ago.

247 lybrightness mag 6.15A2/A3m...

Also catalogued as HD 191220 · HIP 100697

8,140 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
17.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
247 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
17.30×
the Sun's light output
1.75
absolute magnitude
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HR 7698A-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarChi Oct22 ly
StarHR 878631 ly
StarGamma³ Oct31 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.