A-type star · white star

HR 7958

HR 7958 is a white star in the constellation Cygnus 432 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,391 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 432 years ago.

432 lybrightness mag 6.30A3V

Also catalogued as HD 198151 · HIP 102530

9,391 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
46.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
432 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
46.13×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.