Q4052873
Sign in to saveWASP-78, is a single F-type main-sequence star about 2350 light-years away. It is likely to be younger than the Sun at 3.4 billion years. WASP-78 is depleted in heavy elements, having a 45% concentration of iron compared to the Sun.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- F8
- Distance
- 2,355 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000004202916431772508
- Coordinates
- RA 63.7563° · Dec -22.1164°
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 550
- Radius
- 2.31
- Mass
- 2.02
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- surface gravity
- 8430
- luminosity
- 5.790783
- catalog code
- TIC 139528693
- spectral class
- F8
- effective temperature
- 6100
- parallax
- 1.334
- apparent magnitude
- 12.176885
- radial velocity
- 2.02
- metallicity
- -0.29
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.367
- declination component of proper motion
- 6.395
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3.4
- right ascension
- 63.75626791053
- declination
- -22.11641759737
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WASP-78, is a single F-type main-sequence star about 2350 light-years away. It is likely to be younger than the Sun at 3.4 billion years. WASP-78 is depleted in heavy elements, having a 45% concentration of iron compared to the Sun.
==Planetary system== In 2012 a transiting hot Jupiter planet b was detected on a circular orbit. The planetary equilibrium temperature is 2350 K, while the nightside temperature measured in 2019 is 2200 K. The dayside planetary temperature measured in 2020 is .