A-type star · white star

HR 7959

HR 7959 is a white star in the constellation Pavo 249 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,140 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 249 years ago.

249 lybrightness mag 5.67A2

Also catalogued as HD 198160 · HIP 102962

8,140 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
27.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
249 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
27.39×
the Sun's light output
1.26
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pavo

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.