F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 7877

HR 7877 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Capricornus 155 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,288 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 155 years ago.

155 lybrightness mag 6.38A9V

Also catalogued as HD 196385 · HIP 101808

7,288 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
5.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
155 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
5.52×
the Sun's light output
3.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 7877F-type
Sky regionCapricornusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.