B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7926

HR 7926 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,094 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,692 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 524× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,094 years ago.

1,094 lybrightness mag 5.68B8II-III

Also catalogued as HD 197392 · HIP 102155

11,692 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
524× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,094 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
524×
the Sun's light output
-1.95
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.