B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7270

478 lybrightness mag 6.28B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 178840 · HIP 94272

10,529 K

temperature

6.28

apparent magnitude

57.60× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

478 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

57.60×

the Sun's light output

0.45

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7270B-type

Sky regionSagittariusthis direction

StarHR 721118 ly

StarHR 715138 ly

StarHR 710456 ly

StarKaus Australisstar

StarNunkistar

Nearest stars

HR 7211 →18 ly apart
HR 7151 →38 ly apart
HR 7104 →56 ly apart
49Chi3Sgr →58 ly apart
HR 7276 →69 ly apart
HR 7029 →70 ly apart

Bright stars in Sagittarius

Kaus Australis →mag 1.8
Nunki →mag 2.0
Ascella →mag 2.6
Kaus Media →mag 2.7
Kaus Borealis →mag 2.8
Albaldah →mag 2.9
Alnasl →mag 3.0
Eta Sgr →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sagittarius

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.