A-type star · white star

HR 7699

HR 7699 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,735 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,867 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 878× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,735 years ago.

1,735 lybrightness mag 6.12B5Ib

Also catalogued as HD 191243 · HIP 99145

8,867 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
878× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,735 years
at light speed from Earth
1.54×
as hot as the Sun
878×
the Sun's light output
-2.51
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cygnus

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.