A-type star · white star
63 Sgr
63 Sgr is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 297 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,236 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 297 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7649 · HD 189741 · HIP 98633
9,236 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
38.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
297 years
at light speed from Earth
1.60×
as hot as the Sun
38.19×
the Sun's light output
0.90
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.