A-type star · white star
61 Sgr
61 Sgr is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 266 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,487 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 266 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7614 · HD 188899 · HIP 98258
9,487 K
temperature
5.01
apparent magnitude
57.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
266 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
57.23×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.