F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 7756

HR 7756 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cygnus 112 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,639 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 112 years ago.

112 lybrightness mag 5.87F5V:

Also catalogued as HD 192985 · HIP 99889

6,639 K

temperature

5.87

apparent magnitude

4.59× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

112 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

4.59×

the Sun's light output

3.20

absolute magnitude

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HR 7756F-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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Bright stars in Cygnus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.