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WASP-7, also identified as HD 197286, is a type F star located about 527 light-years away in the constellation Microscopium. This star is a little larger and about 28% more massive than the Sun and is also brighter and hotter. At magnitude 9.5 the star cannot be seen by the naked eye but is visible through a small telescope.

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Distance from Earth
140
Radius
1.432
Mass
1.276
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spectral class
F8
catalog code
TIC 389352124
apparent magnitude
9.383678
effective temperature
6400
parallax
6.164
radial velocity
-26.94
metallicity
-0.04
stellar rotational velocity
17.48
declination component of proper motion
-57.355
surface gravity
14960
luminosity
3.442041
right ascension component of proper motion
30.394
right ascension
311.04258685937
declination
-39.22523774489
age estimated by a dating method
2.4
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WASP-7, also identified as HD 197286, is a type F star located about 527 light-years away in the constellation Microscopium. This star is a little larger and about 28% more massive than the Sun and is also brighter and hotter. At magnitude 9.5 the star cannot be seen by the naked eye but is visible through a small telescope.

==Planetary system== The SuperWASP project announced an extrasolar planet, WASP-7b, orbiting this star in 2008. The planet appears to be another hot Jupiter, a low-density planet with Jupiter's mass orbiting very close to a hot star and thus emitting enough heat to glow.

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