F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 7766

HR 7766 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Telescopium 101 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,175 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 101 years ago.

101 lybrightness mag 6.26G2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 193307 · HIP 100412 · Gliese GJ 9691

6,175 K

temperature

6.26

apparent magnitude

2.63× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

101 years

at light speed from Earth

1.07×

as hot as the Sun

2.63×

the Sun's light output

3.80

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Telescopium

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.