B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7983

HR 7983 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cygnus 1,607 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,031 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 621× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,607 years ago.

1,607 lybrightness mag 6.33B4V

Also catalogued as HD 198625 · HIP 102827

11,031 K

temperature

6.33

apparent magnitude

621× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,607 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

621×

the Sun's light output

-2.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 7983B-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

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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.