B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7870

431 lybrightness mag 5.78B9sp...

Also catalogued as HD 196178 · HIP 101475

12,293 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

74.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9sp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

431 years

at light speed from Earth

2.13×

as hot as the Sun

74.27×

the Sun's light output

0.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7870B-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7841 →12 ly apart
HR 7958 →17 ly apart
HR 7798 →31 ly apart
HR 7919 →31 ly apart
46Ome2Cyg →37 ly apart
26 Cyg →48 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.