A-type star · white star
9 Sgr
9 Sgr is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius. Its surface is about 9,754 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38,370,725× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.89O6
Also catalogued as HR 6736 · HD 164794 · HIP 88469
9,754 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
38,370,725× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
O6
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
38,370,725×
the Sun's light output
-14.11
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.