F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 7998
HR 7998 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aquarius 218 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,095 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 218 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 198949 · HIP 103154
7,095 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
10.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
218 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
10.30×
the Sun's light output
2.32
absolute magnitude
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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.