B-type star · blue-white star
HR 7878
HR 7878 is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquila 545 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,184 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 544 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 196426 · HIP 101746
11,184 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
79.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IIIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
544 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
79.65×
the Sun's light output
0.10
absolute magnitude
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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.