B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7803

HR 7803 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 807 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,598 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 807 years ago.

807 lybrightness mag 6.14B9V

Also catalogued as HD 194244 · HIP 100664

10,598 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
807 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
absolute magnitude
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HR 7803B-type
Sky regionAquilathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.