B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7961

965 lybrightness mag 5.86B8II

Also catalogued as HD 198174 · HIP 102772

11,076 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

345× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

965 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

345×

the Sun's light output

-1.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7961B-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8050 →62 ly apart
HR 7997 →74 ly apart
18Ome Cap →120 ly apart
HR 7964 →140 ly apart
HR 7725 →150 ly apart
HD 203607 →160 ly apart

Bright stars in Capricornus

Deneb Algedi →mag 2.9
Dabih →mag 3.0
Algedi →mag 3.6
Nashira →mag 3.7
34Zet Cap →mag 3.8
23The Cap →mag 4.1
18Ome Cap →mag 4.1
16Psi Cap →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Capricornus

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.