A-type star · white star

HR 7959

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

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7959A-type

Sky regionPavothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7707 →25 ly apart
HR 8019 →28 ly apart
Mu 1Pav →32 ly apart
Mu 2Pav →32 ly apart
HR 7579 →41 ly apart
HR 7587 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Pavo

Peacock →mag 1.9
Bet Pav →mag 3.4
Del Pav →mag 3.5
Eta Pav →mag 3.6
Eps Pav →mag 4.0
Zet Pav →mag 4.0
Gam Pav →mag 4.2
Lam Pav →mag 4.2

Can you see it tonight?

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.