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Loading contentBabcock's star is a main-sequence star in the constellation Lacerta (Lacertae).
Class A. White stars with strong hydrogen lines. Many of the brightest stars in the sky are class A. Such stars have surface temperatures around 7,500–10,000 K and appear white to the eye.
| Spectral type | A0p |
| Apparent magnitude | 8.83 |
| Absolute magnitude | -11.17 |
| Luminosity (Sun = 1) | 2,558,586 |
| Colour index (B−V) | 0.031 |
Values are real catalogue data; fields without a reliable value are omitted, never estimated.
A main-sequence star fuses hydrogen into helium in its core. It will remain on the main sequence for most of its life before evolving into a giant.
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Aggregated, openly-licensed star catalogue combining Hipparcos, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
High-precision parallax, magnitude, and position for ~118,000 stars.