A-type star · white star

HR 7865

HR 7865 is a white star in the constellation Capricornus 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,026 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 232 years ago.

232 lybrightness mag 6.19A5II/III

Also catalogued as HD 196078 · HIP 101608

8,026 K

temperature

6.19

apparent magnitude

14.72× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

232 years

at light speed from Earth

1.39×

as hot as the Sun

14.72×

the Sun's light output

1.93

absolute magnitude

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HR 7865A-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

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Bright stars in Capricornus

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Capricornus

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.