B-type star · blue-white star

HR 7996

1,735 lybrightness mag 6.42B3III

Also catalogued as HD 198820 · HIP 102993

12,254 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

666× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,735 years

at light speed from Earth

2.12×

as hot as the Sun

666×

the Sun's light output

-2.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 7996B-type

Sky regionCygnusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8084 →110 ly apart
HR 8126 →180 ly apart
HR 8120 →260 ly apart
HR 7699 →280 ly apart
Sadr →310 ly apart
HR 7759 →340 ly apart

Bright stars in Cygnus

Sadr →mag 2.2
Aljanah →mag 2.5
Fawaris →mag 2.9
64Zet Cyg →mag 3.2
62Xi Cyg →mag 3.7
65Tau Cyg →mag 3.7
10Iot2Cyg →mag 3.8
1Kap Cyg →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.