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Also known as GSC 03547-01402, BD+47 2846, PPM 58383, KIC 10666592, TOI-1265, TIC 424865156, SPOCS 4118, KOI-2

HAT-P-7 is a triple star system located about 1,088 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The apparent magnitude of this star is 10.5, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a small telescope on a clear dark night.

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HAT-P-7 is a triple star system located about 1,088 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The apparent magnitude of this star is 10.5, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a small telescope on a clear dark night.

==Stellar system== The primary component of the HAT-P-7 system is an F-type main-sequence star with around 1.35 times the Sun's mass and twice the Sun's radius, hosting one known planet. The secondary is a red dwarf located 730 astronomical units away from the primary, with a spectral type of M5.5V and a mass of . The tertiary is also a red dwarf with a mass of at least ; it is in a highly-eccentric orbit with a semi-major axis of 32 AU.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HAT-P-7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.