B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7954

HR 7954 is a blue-white star in the constellation Delphinus 473 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,290 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 473 years ago.

473 lybrightness mag 6.38A0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 198070 · HIP 102631

10,290 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
51.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
473 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
51.33×
the Sun's light output
0.57
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Delphinus

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.