A-type star · white star

HR 7930

HR 7930 is a white star in the constellation Draco 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,461 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 6.19A4m

Also catalogued as HD 197508 · HIP 101044

8,461 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
24.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
298 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
24.23×
the Sun's light output
1.39
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.